On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, [gb2312] 肇 鑫 wrote:
Greeting everyone. I update the XFree86 to 4.3.0-42 today.
Updated from what previous XFree86 release?
I notice that the fonts change a lot now. However, I think they are worse than before.
Interesting... considering nothing has changed in XFree86 for quite a long time now that might affect fonts.
If you are somebody like me, who choose Chinese as default, you will find the characters become so obscure now. I believe that if this is still existed, fedora should not be released. I use a notebook with 14.1 @ 1024*768. So I try to reset fonts using LCD mode in font setting. But it seems no changes happened.
So please chech-out want is wrong in that.
We'll need a lot more information than that to be able to investigate anything. Fonts should work no different now than they did even a few months ago. There are no new font related bugs reported in bugzilla that I can see. If there was a widespread problem of ugly fonts all of a sudden, bugzilla would probably be quite flooded with bug reports about font problems.
I suspect this is just a local font installation issue. If you've ever manually installed Asian fonts which supply their own fonts.scale and/or fonts.dir files and don't function properly with ttmkfdir/mkfontdir generated font metadata files, then this is a likely cause of the problem.
Can you provide screenshots?