All text in gimp 2.8 has greenish border when antialiasing is on, no matter which color is on the background. http://i.imgur.com/Ntky2.png - upper part with antialiasing, lower without

This problem happens with gimp 2.8 on gentoo/kde 4.8

Anyone have such problems? What can I do to fix this?

thanks in advance!

On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 21:41 +0200, gimp-bug wrote:

All text in gimp 2.8 has greenish border when antialiasing is on, no matter which color is on the background. http://i.imgur.com/Ntky2.png - upper part with antialiasing, lower without

This problem happens with gimp 2.8 on gentoo/kde 4.8

Anyone have such problems? What can I do to fix this?

Check your font antialiasing preferences maybe? In gnome 2 this is in system->prefs->appearance->fonts under advanced, I don't know about kde.

There should be settings for your LCD screen sub-pixel hinting, and you might want to try turning that off and see if it helps.

Liam

Thank you for the answer!
Yesterday on IRC I was suggested the same - to check antialiasing settings. There's nothing wrong in my fontconfig, it's pretty standard. In KDE there are three options for antialiasing: Enabled, System settings, Disabled. I tried every one, and this didn't help. Anything other but "Enabled" makes my fonts horrible in all other apps though.

I use lcd-filtering gentoo overlay, so this might be a reason why changing settings doesn't work.

I tried Photoshop CS5 under Wine and, as expected, it didn't have such problem.

So now the question is - is this really intended feature that OS settings could interfere with how raster graphical editor renders its' text objects? Don't you see anything wrong with it? Atm Gimp is unusable for me. Don't consider this as a flamebait. I just really a bit amused by such "feature" and not sure if I should report it to bugtracker as a bug.

On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:05 +0200, gimp-bug wrote:

There should also be options for the type of screen you have - RGB, VRGB, etc.

I tried every one, and this didn't help. Anything other but "Enabled" makes my fonts horrible in all other apps though.

The first thing is to discover what's causing your problem, before trying to work out a solution.

I use lcd-filtering gentoo overlay, so this might be a reason why changing settings doesn't work.

I don't know what that is, sorry.

Liam

Just've found subpixel options. There's no green border when subpixel rendering turned off, and there is a green border when subpixel rendering turned on, no matter which mode - RGB, vRGB, BGR - is selected. Fonts look bad without subpixel rendering though, so turning this off is not a solution for me, unfortunatelly.