Installation slideshow: Tracking in large text is off

Bug #688512 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Paul Sladen

Bug Description

Apparently the larger text rendered in the Ubuntu Font Family has broken kerning/tracking in the installer slideshow.

The relevant slides are HTML files that can be found in the 'ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu' source package at:

  ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu-29/slideshows/ubuntu/slides/*.html

This should be a manifestation of bug #617522 "does not use kerning tables at >20px (text-rendering: optimizeLegibility)"

ubiquity-gtk is using webkit; webkit had a patch included a year ago that enables the CSS "text-rendering: optimiseSpeed vs. optimizeLegibility" properties in a similar manner to Firefox. It may be enough to set these.

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Paul Sladen (sladen)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
Paul Sladen (sladen)
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Paul Sladen (sladen)
description: updated
Paul Sladen (sladen)
description: updated
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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote :

Thank you for pointing that out, Paul. Looks like optimizeLegibility does fix things in some places.

So, I'm committing the change you suggested. Here is a before and after screenshot for one title that changes noticeably:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/bugs/lp688512/1Before.png
http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/bugs/lp688512/1After.png

I don't have much of an eye for fonts, unfortunately. Please let me know if this can be improved any more :)

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu - 31

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ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (31) natty; urgency=low

  [ Dylan McCall ]
  * Improve kerning in Ubuntu slideshow (LP: #688512)

  [ Jonathan Carter ]
  * Update Edubuntu slides

  [ Mackenzie Morgan ]
  * Fix typo in Kubuntu slides (LP: #714668)

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Update translations from Launchpad.
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:02:53 +0000

Changed in ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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