Bug 217306

Summary:	HTML view in KMail scales bitmap fonts
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Maciej J . Woloszyk <matofesi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kollix
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.12.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	This is how HTML view looks in 4.3.4 This is how it's supposed to look (it looked like that in 4.3.3)

Description Maciej J . Woloszyk 2009-12-04 09:46:55 UTC

Version:           1.12.4 (using 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-rc3

I use bitmap "Console" font as a font for viewing messages in KMail (as it looks really nice on 12 inch screen). It worked fine up until KDE 4.3.3, but with 4.3.4 something changed and now while it works for plain text messages in HTML messages KMail tries to scale the font and the message view looks really bad (including "elegant" headers). I'm not really sure if it's KMail's fault as just after first start after upgrade Konsole (where I use the same font) displayed something that looked similar - badly scaled font, but after I changed the font size to 12 (it was 6 before, but it worked fine as the font was not scaled) the problem disappeared. Unfortunately changing fonts in KMail or even setting it to use fixed width font (set to "Console", 12) doesn't fix the HTML view problem.

Comment 1 Maciej J . Woloszyk 2009-12-04 09:48:20 UTC

Created attachment 38823 [details]
This is how HTML view looks in 4.3.4

Comment 2 Maciej J . Woloszyk 2009-12-04 09:49:35 UTC

Created attachment 38824 [details]
This is how it's supposed to look (it looked like that in 4.3.3)

Comment 3 Maciej J . Woloszyk 2009-12-04 15:01:45 UTC

Ok. I think I found the cause of the problem. I upgraded Qt to 4.6.0 together with KDE and it seems that the font scaling is a bug (or feature ;)) in Qt - downgrade to 4.5.3 and recompiling KDE seems to have solved the problem.

Comment 4 Martin Koller 2012-07-21 14:34:15 UTC

can not reproduce with KDE/4.9, kmail2, Qt-4.8.2