[5.0H] Bold Smeared text

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Gmail email, subject is bold/smeared
2. Use search widget or google search to search for anything, results are
smeared

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output would be clear text, I see smeared bolded text that looks fugly

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
5.0H apps-on-sd

Original issue reported on code.google.com by defconoii on 11 Apr 2009 at 1:50

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I'm not seeing the same problem.  Are you using custom fonts?

Original comment by benji.he...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2009 at 2:30

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no custom fonts, and fresh wiped flash, I had the same issue with 4.9 but not 
4.5

Original comment by defconoii on 11 Apr 2009 at 2:52

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here is someone with the same problem: 
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3545740&postcount=651

Original comment by defconoii on 11 Apr 2009 at 3:51

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Original comment by benji.he...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2009 at 4:02

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Im about to wipe 5.0H apps to sd and test for this issue, will update in a 
couple mins

Original comment by defconoii on 11 Apr 2009 at 4:47

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Ok did a full wipe of 5.0H, now have 5.01H installed and have the same issue 
with
some text fuzzy, only the bold text in subject/from in gmail is fuzzy and in 
browser

Original comment by defconoii on 11 Apr 2009 at 5:12

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I have the same problem. It's not GMail only though, happens in browser aswell.
I have a feeling theres a problem with the fonts. (They're also missing chinese 
and
japanese characters, and the latter gives me some problems with my mails from 
my jap.
classes :( ).
I'll try to install the fonts from another builds, and see if it fixes anything.

Original comment by kennylev...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2009 at 3:31

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I did a google search through the phone for Google, and hence Google is bolded 
in my
search results. It does look SLIGHTLY blurry, very very slightly, I think its 
due to
the size of font and the fact that is bolded (Search results). 

Original comment by 10gu...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2009 at 4:00

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Hmm... The fonts are still smeared, and as 10qutua says, this might just be how 
the
bold text looks (And that this build uses bold text more often).
It did add chinese and japanese support though :D

Original comment by kennylev...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2009 at 5:36

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I'm having the same issue and can confirm that it is NOT a problem with the 
fonts
themselves. I pushed RC33 font files to /system/fonts and bold text still 
appears
smeared.

Original comment by lueje...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:28

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Same issue here as well.

Original comment by mikef1...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2009 at 6:16

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I've found an interesting issue that seems to be related to this. I'm using 
5.0.2H.

In the browser, if there is any bold text visible in the current page view, the
window-switching animation (where the current view shrinks into the window
thumbnails) are very slow and jerky.

However, if there is no bold text visible in the current view, then the 
animation is
silky-smooth. You can test this easily: scroll to an area of a page with no bold
text, menu>window. Smooth. Scroll to another area that has any bold text.
Menu>window: choppy. 

Original comment by lueje...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2009 at 4:19

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on the google reader webpage ( http://reader.google.com/i )  the  text is also 
smeared

Original comment by pee...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2009 at 11:08

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This seems to be an issue with missing or maybe the browser is not using the 
correct
fonts.  I don't know much about fonts, but the problem seems like the browser is
shrinking the larger fonts to fit the page.  If you zoom in a few times, you 
will
notice that the bold fonts are not blurred anymore, also if you do the windows
switching like luejerry said, it becomes silky-smooth even with the bold fonts 
if the
page is zoom in quite a few times.  Unfortunately, it makes reading any text
impractical with the browser zoomed in like that.  I believe the browser would 
be
much more smooth like G build once this is fixed.

Original comment by manny...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2009 at 3:37

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i just noticed this problem, its not that bad though!

Original comment by djkd...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2009 at 12:17