Hanno, You should probably know that TT fonts have special "fitting" or "hinting" process that uses byte interpreter to improve the quality of small fonts. Unfortunately this works good for monochrome fonts only (MS seems to never use anti-aliasing for small font sizes). I found that anti-aliasing is not very beautiful for small font sizes (and on the contrary is desirable for large sizes). I have no idea how to switch off anti-aliasing in your environment but it certainly should help.
Anton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hanno Mueller Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 4:59 PM To: freetype@nongnu.org Subject: [ft] Oversized "O" Hi, I'm using the xorg x-servers on Ubuntu, but I have seen similar problems with Debian, so I think this isn't something distribution-specific, but rather something I should ask here. When using Microsoft's "Core Fonts" with TFT RGB subpixel-rendering, I often get oversized "O"s - their height is bigger than the other characters in the same line. Here are some examples: (These are headlines from spiegel.de, a German news site, rendered with Firefox. If I understand the CSS correctly, this is the Verdana Truetype font.) http://www.hanno.de/kram/big-o.png And here is a zoomed version that explains the problem: http://www.hanno.de/kram/big-o-zoom.png I am really irritated by this, as these oversized "O"s really stand out from the rest of the page's text. Anything I can do about it? Best regards, Hanno _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype