Bug 303203

Summary:	bad fonts in "globe" view
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Vladislav <vladislav.tcendrovskii>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aspotashev, nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	flat view globe view mercator view

Description Vladislav 2012-07-08 18:22:37 UTC

When I use Globe and Flat view modes with OSM, I see very bad fonts. 
In Globe view fonts antialiased badly.
In Flat view they are compressed in the meridian direction. When characters have some slope, it looks very bad.

In mercator view all works fine. And this problem doesn't depend on render type - X11 or software.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Open eyes
1. Start marble
2. Open OSM
3. View bad fonts

Comment 1 Vladislav 2012-07-08 19:04:49 UTC

Created attachment 72373 [details]
flat view

Comment 2 Vladislav 2012-07-08 19:05:21 UTC

Created attachment 72374 [details]
globe view

Comment 3 Vladislav 2012-07-08 19:05:58 UTC

Created attachment 72375 [details]
mercator view

Comment 4 Dennis Nienhüser 2012-08-13 17:16:16 UTC

It's a known technical limitation, see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/FAQ#The_labels_and_features_on_the_OpenStreetMap_map_theme_look_blurry.21_How_can_I_fix_this.3F

In the long run we'll resolve it through vector rendering, see http://blogs.deusto.es/gsoc-deustotech/ for some recent information on that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199259 ***