Bug 234001 - KDE WebKit renders certain fonts poorly
Summary: KDE WebKit renders certain fonts poorly
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kwebkitpart
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: webkit-devel
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-04-11 03:38 UTC by James Dent
Modified: 2010-04-11 16:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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A screenshot of the problem (67.72 KB, image/png)
2010-04-11 03:39 UTC, James Dent
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screenshot of same site on my machine... (181.36 KB, image/png)
2010-04-11 16:06 UTC, Dawit Alemayehu
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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...