Bug 234001

Summary:	KDE WebKit renders certain fonts poorly
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kwebkitpart	Reporter:	James Dent <semajdent>
Component:	general	Assignee:	webkit-devel
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	adawit
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	A screenshot of the problem screenshot of same site on my machine...

Description James Dent 2010-04-11 03:38:25 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Archlinux Packages

As per the attached screenshot.
A few fonts (FreeSerif, ) are rendered as highly pixellated and frequently overlapping when used as the default for pages that do not specify a font of their own. 

This improper rendering is also visible in the font selection combo-box used in Rekonq's configuration dialog. 

QtWebKit (Arora) does not seem to suffer from this problem.

Comment 1 James Dent 2010-04-11 03:39:11 UTC

Created attachment 42669 [details]
A screenshot of the problem

Comment 2 Dawit Alemayehu 2010-04-11 16:05:46 UTC

Cannot duplicate the problem... The same site renders fine on my machine which happens to be an ArchLinux box as well. I remember having some layout issues due to font sizes when I was using QtWebKit from the official Qt 4.6 package, but nothing like what your screenshot shows. However, in the upcoming standalone release of QtWebKit v2.0, I neither see this problem you are reporting nor the layout issues I used to encounter before. 

Anyhow, if you can try out the weekly builds of QtWebKit 2.0 from 
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitJournal#WeeklyBuildWeek12
and see if that solves your problem or wait until QtWebKit 2.0 is released in May and reopen your ticket if the problem persists.

Comment 3 Dawit Alemayehu 2010-04-11 16:06:52 UTC

Created attachment 42685 [details]
screenshot of same site on my machine...