[25942] in Athena Bugs
solaris 9.3.11: mozilla antialiased fonts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Aug 17 15:04:21 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:03:04 +0000
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 16 Aug 2004
at 12:43:01 -0400 in <200408161643.i7GGh1kb015795@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>:
> Subject: Reminder: Athena 9.3.11 pach release today
> On both platforms:
> * Mozilla will be updated to version 1.7.2.
> * Mozilla will use anti-aliased fonts.
So, I'm not certain that this is a bug, but it seems like
wrong behavior to me. Can you advise?
Mozilla 1.7.2 on csw.mit.edu for me renders this html fragment:
(available as http://web.mit.edu/jhawk/tmp/08.html)
<font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial" size="1">
posted 08-17-2004 09:48 AM
such that the 0 and 8 in "08" appear to run together.
In particular, there is a pair of full black pixels on the rightmost
column of the zero and 3 black pixels in the leftmost column of the
eight (as well as various grey pixels in both), and that rightmost of
the 0 and leftmost of the 8 columns are adjacent.
Could this possibly be right?
Here's what pbmtoascii shows for the 0 and the eight:
ooo ooo
M MMooo"
M MM" M""
""" """
I realize that is less than clear. Here are the two
columns if I transcribe them with the gimp's eyedropper,
the 0 being white and 9 being black, rounding to the nearest
10th:
13
78
94
98
78
12
The juxtoposition of the 9 and 8 on the 4th line is particularly
bad, i think. It really makes the 0 and the 8 look run
together.
Thanks.
--jhawk
