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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1309785 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309785

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Gedit switches to grayscale font antialiasing when the text exceeds
  window size

Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  
  Gedit switches to gray-scale font anti-aliasing when the text displayed does not fit within the window.

  To reproduce the bug:

  (1) Select the following font settings:
  	Default font: 		Liberation Sans, 10
  	Document font:		Liberation Sans, 10
  	Monospace font:		Liberation Mono,  9
  	Window title font:	Liberation Sans Bold, 10
  	Antialiasing:		RGBA
  	Hinting:		Medium
  	Text scaling factor:	1.00

  (2) Open gedit.  (Optionally, make the window a little smaller so you
  don't have to type so much in the next step).

  (3) Type some text and notice that the font selections you made are
  being used. (Take a screen-shot for reference).

  (4) Continue typing more text, until the text no longer fits in the
  gedit window's text area.  The vertical overlay scroll bar will appear
  at the right window edge (if you have text wrap enabled).

  (5) Now that the text you typed does not fit within the gedit window,
  notice that the text is no longer as smooth as before. (Take a screen-
  shot for reference).

  (6) Open and zoom into the screen shot from step 3, and then open and
  zoom into the screen shot from step 5.  Notice that the colored font
  hinting (or anti-aliased font edges) that appearED in the screen-shot
  from step 3 are no longer present in the screen-shot from step 5.  The
  fonts in the screen-shot from step 5 have gray antialiasing / hinting.

  I have attached a screen-shots depicting this situation.  The left
  side of the screen shot shows gedit with good font antialiasing /
  hinting (from step 3).  The left side of the screen shot shows gedit
  with bad font antialiasing / hinting (from step 5).  I have also
  zoomed into the letter "A" in each respective scenario, and pasted
  that into the image to show how the font hinting / anti-aliasing
  changes when text does not fit into the gedit window.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Apr 23 14:58:48 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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