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Some bold fonts not appearing correctly in Chromium 14.0.829 #182

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Which program triggers the problem? Specify the filename if possible.

Chromium 14.0.829 (and previous builds)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start Chromium
2. Access a site that uses certain bold fonts (e.g. the header navigation of 
www.bbc.co.uk/news)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Bolded font rendering appears partially broken

What version of gdipp (including renderer)? On which operating system?

0.9.1, Windows XP SP2 (JA)

Please provide any additional information below. Screenshots always help.

Please refer to the screenshots below comparing the same website on Chromium 
14.0.829 and Chrome dev build 14.0.814.

Of course, this could simply be a bug with Chromium's font renderer, however 
it's worth noting that not all bold fonts exhibit the problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jmbat...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2011 at 12:24

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I should also point out that the fonts appear normal (albeit aliased, 
obviously) when gdipp is disabled.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2011 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
One of the ways to trigger this issue is to add a text-shadow on some text. It 
seems Chrome 14 switched to a different render method for some fonts, and it 
likely has something to do with GPU acceleration.

I think I will disable gdipp until (if ever) this is fixed.

Original comment by puntodif...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 12:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, I can confirm that this issue occurs when text-shadow is used.
Good detective work!

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 1:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
when you can fix this problem?

Original comment by sashapru...@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2011 at 11:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This issue now affects the latest Chrome stable (14.0.835.15), as seen in the 
screenshot below.

A fix would be greatly appreciated.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 1:31

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
A workaround until this is fixed is to disable text shadows using this 
userscript: 
http://userstyles.org/styles/19166/firefox-3-5-no-text-shadow-on-websites

Original comment by 3rd.d....@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2011 at 1:06

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Running the latest Chrome nightly (15.0.876), it appears that all text is now 
affected.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 11:44

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I can confirm this, even with the userscript I posted, the text is still 
rendered horribly.

Original comment by 3rd.d....@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 10:24

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, I've reverted back to a previous version of Chromium, however eventually 
these changes will be rolled out to Chrome stable.  If that happens, I may 
consider returning to Firefox.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2011 at 10:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Same problem here on Chrome 15.0.874.5 dev-m.

Original comment by rickatni...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2011 at 1:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
same here on 15.0.876.0

Original comment by mjm....@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2011 at 11:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
16.0.883.0 canary has more serious problem when I use it in Japanese.

Original comment by jam.no.n...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2011 at 9:39

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Ouch, that looks horrible (読む悪い).

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 7:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Latest Chromium: no smoothing at all in the content area, but at least the text 
is legible.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 7:28

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Chrome 13 had no problems, however, this issue appears in 14, 15 and 16...

Original comment by proof1...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 2:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Completely broken in 16. All text is essentially illegible.

Original comment by JesseLi...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2011 at 5:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
chrome v16.0.889-0 dev. text issue.

Original comment by noboo...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2011 at 6:27

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yup, new Chrome dev broken here, too.

Original comment by rickatni...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2011 at 12:41

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Best thing you can do is exclude chrome for now until this is fixed...

Under your gdipp directory, there is a gdipp_settings.xml file, open it and 
scroll down and add:

<process>chrome\.exe</process> to the <exclude> tag

Original comment by proof1...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2011 at 10:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks, proof.  That helped.  Now I get to sit back and watch this thread until 
the issue is resolved :-P

Original comment by rickatni...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2011 at 2:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
To add that string to exclude Chrome should I just copy it exactly as you have 
it, and paste it in the settings?  "<process>chrome\.exe</process> to the 
<exclude> tag"

Original comment by rphar...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 3:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yup.  I threw <process>vlc\.exe</process> in there too, since VLC has missing 
letters in the menus.

Original comment by rickatni...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 3:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Nice.  Thanks.  It worked.

Original comment by rphar...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 4:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
So any progress on this fix?  I really hate using Chrome without GDIPP.  Anyone 
know when Chrome will support it?  I had to switch to FF in the meantime.

Original comment by rphar...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2011 at 1:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Just FYI,
I have seen an information that Chrome is going to fix the rendering problem 
for CJK fonts on the next release, coming in next few days. (You know since the 
last dev release Chrome has a bug that makes CJK font rendering very jaggy?)
I'm assuming it has also changed the whole rendering process, not only the CJK 
font rendering. (I don't know the detail of Chrome's implementation though)
So I'm hoping that the coming bugfix will also fix the gdipp rendering 
problem... Isn't it related?

Original comment by ryushiro...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2011 at 5:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
So yeah the Chrome's bugfix for CJK fonts has come just now but it hasn't fixed 
gdipp's rendering problem..

Original comment by ryushiro...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 3:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
it's very important to fix the bug as soon as possible because Chrome has 16.8% 
shares in the world today.
so many people is probably using chrome with Chinese character,kanji.

Original comment by jam.no.n...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 1:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think, that creator of gdipp left this project. Zero commits was created till 
last 30 days

Original comment by to.merge@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 4:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hello,
I think this is issue is caused by chrome's way to render css text-shadows.

if u disable the rendering of those shadows, u wont notice the problem anymore.
how to do this ?
i did by installing STYLEBOT plugins wich allows u to edit the way websites css.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha

and in the options u can simply ad a new style like this:
------------------------------------------------
URL: .
CSS:
* {
    text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px;
}
------------------------------------------------
now this dont seems to fix every of those shadows.
i dont know if there is a way to apply the same style to a shadow like this:
#header {
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #111;
}
this one will still be render badly :( 
but most of them are gone, and i can at least enjoy using chrome with gdipp 
again :)

Original comment by soun...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 4:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Using recent Chromium builds (last three week), it appears that gdipp rendering 
is now completely bypassed.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 11:23

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It looks like the latest Chromium build 16.0.906.0 (104976) has the text 
rendering fixed. gdipp works.

Original comment by 3rd.d....@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 10:58

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Confirmed!

Working under WinXP too - great stuff!

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 12:41

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Well, something happened between build 104930 and 104955 which fixed the 
problem.

This, perhaps?

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=104940 

Looks like this was the fix:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/97149

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 1:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The problem still persists in Chrome beta 15.0. They still not addressing the 
problem yet?

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2011 at 2:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The fix has yet to arrive in the current Chrome beta (15.0.874).
You should consider using the Dev version or a Chromium nightly (both of which 
contain the fix).

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 30 Oct 2011 at 3:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I just downloaded and using the latest dev version (16.0.912.15) there is still 
rendering problem:

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 9:06

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Working fine here.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 11:19

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
In my Chrome there is a "dev-m" behind the version number.  But it's not in 
yours, why?

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2011 at 6:45

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I don't know.

I use the versions available from PortableApps.com

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2011 at 6:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Upgraded to 16.0.912.21 dev-m (with Gdipp 0.9.1 on Windows 7 x64) and it's 
working fine now. No corrupted fonts anymore!

Original comment by koffeinb...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2011 at 1:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I am using Windows XP..maybe this is the reason.

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 8:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I don't believe so - I'm using XP and gdipp works fine.

Original comment by jmbat...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 10:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
tytung: Try to disable the font shadows in Gdipp's config (set the alpha and 
offset to '0'). I believe the artifacts are still there, but transparent, and 
their shadows may be the only thing of them we can see.

Original comment by koffeinb...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 10:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I have the same issue? Where would I be able to change Gdipp's config?

Original comment by WizeExca...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 7:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi koffeinb:
Thanks. After I tried it still doesn't work.
I am using XP, and latest Chrome dev (downloaded directly from Chrome page, not 
from other sites).

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2011 at 11:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Use the workaround script that was posted earlier in the thread to fix the 
problem - 
http://userstyles.org/styles/19166/firefox-3-5-no-text-shadow-on-websites (See 
comment #7)

Original comment by 3rd.d....@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2011 at 1:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi 3rd.d...
Thanks. But I am more interested in why some people don't see the issue.

Original comment by tytung2...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2011 at 2:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Any progress with Chrome?

Original comment by renovatz...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 12:04