Bug#465309: cdbaby.com font rendering inferior to that of iceweasel

[Sam Morris]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 01:27 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> On lun, 2008-02-11 at 19:19 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> > Package: epiphany-browser
> > Version: 2.20.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I'm attaching two screenshots of the page at
> > <http://cdbaby.com/cd/dopestarsincmusic>. The first was taken in
> > with Epiphany and the second with Iceweasel.
> > 
> > Epiphany renders the body text font differently to iceweasel.
> > Iceweasel's version looks nice and smooth, but Epiphany's has extra
> > pixels in odd places, giving it a poorly scaled look.
> > 
> > Both browsers were started with fresh profiles, so there shouldn't be
> > any user settings screwing up the test.
> 
> Does it get better if you enable Pango rendering
> with /apps/epiphany/web/enable_pango ?

Yes, with pango enabled Epiphany renders the page with the same font as
Iceweasel.

> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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