Fix WebKit font rendering in 20.04

kernel_kate

I use cutycapt to make screenshots of web pages. When I switched from Kubuntu 16.04 to Kubuntu 20.04 I noticed that font rendering quality degraded significantly. I made several screenshots of the same page and enlarged the same fragment on both screenshots for comparison. Command which was used: cutycapt --out=screenshot.png --url=http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-disable-ipv6-in-debian.html Here's the one made in Kubuntu 16.04 (cutycapt...

Originally asked by whtyger on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I found out that there's no way to fix WebKit font rendering. But I resolved this issue in alternate way: I used fork of cutycapt which can be found here . It uses QtWebEngine instead of WebKit and properly renders fonts with subpixel AA. It is provided in source code form, so it needs to be compiled. You'll need to install the dependencies: qt5-qmake (to create Makefile), and qtbase5-dev , qtwebengine5-dev , libqt5svg5-dev (Qt modules which are required for compilation). Then you should run qmake and make in the folder with the source code. The resulting CutyCapt file should be placed into the folder with binaries manually or using make install . N.B. There also exists another fork which...

Full answer by whtyger: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1568061 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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