GNU bug report logs - #67810
29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Ruffing <crypto <at> timruffing.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:55:54 +0800

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've displayed many hundreds of SVG icons in an Emacs buffer without
> running into any issues.  I therefore find the above claim surprising.
>
> If you have any evidence that this is a problem in practice, then let's
> see it.

It's easily demonstrable: open etc/images/splash.svg, zoom in and out
with the mouse wheel several times, and compare the image cache size in
M-x memory-report with the same after repeating the test with
etc/images/splash.xpm.

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