Bug#557627: iceweasel: Issues with font rendering

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Dec 23 16:23:46 UTC 2009


Hi,

Sorry for the late answer,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:53:37PM +0100, Matteo Riva wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Iceweasel seems to have some problems with font sizes, as shown in this
> screenshot where it's compared to google chrome:
> 
>   http://fruple.com/kemper/font_sizes2.png
> 
> chrome's progression is clearly more linear while iceweasel has some
> "spikes": 7pt is much bigger than 6, while being almost equal to 8. Same
> thing at 9/10/11 points.
> 
> This problem is not limited to 3.5.5 as it happens with iceweasel
> 3.0.14 as well, all tested on a fresh squeeze install (build of fri nov
> 20 2009).

I can confirm the behaviour with the attached file. This could be
related to how character spacing is setup by iceweasel. Would you mind
testing with a vanilla firefox ?

Thanks

Mike
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