RESOLVED INVALID 110575
[Qt] Text jumbled when using GL painter 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110575
Summary [Qt] Text jumbled when using GL painter
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Reported 2013-02-22 01:51:36 PST
When using QtTestBrowser and enabling QGLWidget, text on webpages will often become jumbled, with each letter of a word not aligned with the rest. On a hunch I tried to reproduce it with font hinting forced off, and it turned out I couldn't. So the issue appears related to attempting to hint text to pixel coordinates in the GL painter. One option could be to force hinting off when using GL painting.
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Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Comment 1 2013-02-22 01:53:23 PST
Of course it might be better to figure out why the hinting is random. It is likely a Qt issue, but it appears each letter is correctly hinted on its own as they are appear sharper than without hinting, but the letters are just not hinted in a reliable direction.
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Comment 2 2013-03-12 10:28:44 PDT
Further experiments have shown that both no hinting and full hinting works. The problem is limited to hintslight.
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Comment 3 2013-03-15 08:26:43 PDT
Even further experiments show that the problem might be solved in Qt 5.1. Can anyone else confirm that?
Jocelyn Turcotte
Comment 4 2014-02-03 03:25:12 PST
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