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From: Jeffery Small on 22 Jun 2010 02:29
I recently did a quarterly update of patches for my Solaris SPARC system.
After applying the patches I noticed that the fonts being used by the
applications on my Gnome desktop had changed slightly. For example, the
default Arial font I am using in my Firefox browser now appears much more
"anemic": thinner and less pleasant to view. The Sans font used by Gnome
also appears much worse than before.

Does anyone know what patch/patches is/are responsible for this change, and
is there a way to reset the old font display?

Thanks.
--
Jeffery Small
jeff(a)cjsa.com
From: Rainer Beushausen on 24 Jun 2010 14:37
Jeffery Small schrieb:

> Does anyone know what patch/patches is/are responsible for this change, and
> is there a way to reset the old font display?
>

I noticed some problems with 119812-07 (FreeType patch). Ugly fonts with
Firefox etc. I backed out to 119812-06.

Have not tried the actual 119812-08.

Rainer
From: Jeffery Small on 24 Jun 2010 17:04
jeff(a)cjsa.com (Jeffery Small) writes:

>Rainer Beushausen <surfnasi(a)web.de> writes:

>>I noticed some problems with 119812-07 (FreeType patch). Ugly fonts with
>>Firefox etc. I backed out to 119812-06.

>>Have not tried the actual 119812-08.

>Thanks for the reply. I do have 119812-08 installed. I'll try backing it
>out and see if that solves my problem as well. I really appreciate the
>pointer.

Following up to my own post: I did backout 119812-08, returning to
119812-06, and this did indeed restore the fonts to an acceptable
appearance. Someone at Sun reading this should investigate what happened
between rev. 06 and 07 and see that it gets fixed in future releases.
From: Jeffery Small on 24 Jun 2010 16:48
Rainer Beushausen <surfnasi(a)web.de> writes:

>Jeffery Small schrieb:

>> Does anyone know what patch/patches is/are responsible for this change, and
>> is there a way to reset the old font display?
>>

>I noticed some problems with 119812-07 (FreeType patch). Ugly fonts with
>Firefox etc. I backed out to 119812-06.

>Have not tried the actual 119812-08.

Rainer:

Thanks for the reply. I do have 119812-08 installed. I'll try backing it
out and see if that solves my problem as well. I really appreciate the
pointer.

Regards,
--
Jeff
From: John D Groenveld on 25 Jun 2010 08:28
In article <L4JEJD.81t(a)cjsa.com>, Jeffery Small <jeff(a)cjsa.com> wrote:
>jeff(a)cjsa.com (Jeffery Small) writes:
>appearance. Someone at Sun reading this should investigate what happened
>between rev. 06 and 07 and see that it gets fixed in future releases.

Some customer reading this should open a service order with Sun
and see that the fix gets backported to Solaris 10.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
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