On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Arch Linux with OpenBox. Other applications don't have this
> problem and anti-aliasing appears to be working. E.g. I can zoom in and out
> in FireFox with no font degradation.
>
Different toolkit. Check Qt4 Settings, maybe. There is also the issue
of some Apple patents that may or may not get in the way, depending on
the distro and how packages/deps are built. Also see if things are
different with a different DE (e.g. Xfce, which has aliasing and
pixels facilities).
What is your Help > About > Build info? I'm wondering if it's worth
giving the Qt5 version a shot, assuming you have a recent version
available.
If all else fails, perhaps it would be a good idea to open a ticket
including the screen captures and detailed info on your system/build.
Liviu
> Fonts are from the xorg packages (xorg-server, xorg-server-utils, xorg-apps)
> and Infinality.
>
>
> On 07/04/2016 10:50 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, in 'Tool -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Screen Fonts' I've tried all
> the serif faces that I've got: the all have the same problem.
>
> I believe I've read that LyX (actually TeX) uses bit mapped fonts by
> default. It wasn't clear how to get non-bitmapped fonts.
>
> No, this isn't TeX related. This seems to affect strictly the display in
> LyX.
>
> What you're describing seems to be related to aliasing/hinting. What
> OS / DE are you using?
>
> Liviu
>
>
> On 07/04/2016 03:26 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Barnet Wagman <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080 (not HiDPI)
>
> Here are links to screenshots (files on google drive)
>
> eg 0 zoom=150% (default)
>
> eg 1 zoom=125%
>
> eg 2 zoom=100%
>
> eg 3 zoom=75%
>
> The "zoom" refers to zoom specification in Tool -> Preferences -> Look &
> Feel -> Screen Fonts. 150% was the initial value.
>
> Note that e.g going from 150% to 125%, the darkness of letters becomes
> uneven.
>
> Have you tried changing the display font? See Tools > Prefs > Screen
> fonts.
>
> Liviu
>
>
> On 07/04/2016 05:15 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:20 AM, bdw <bdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On a new, vanilla LyX installation (version 2.2.0-1), all the 'Help'
> documents (Introduction, Tutorial, etc.) are displayed with very large
> fonts. However, if I zoom to correct this ('alt -' on my system), the
> quality of the font degrades badly. Going in the other direction does
> NOT
> effect the quality.
>
> What resolution, and is it HiDPI? Please provide a screenhot (before
> and after the problem).
>
> Liviu
>
>
> I've tried changing various fonts (using Tools -> Preferences -> Look &
> Feel
> -> Screen Fonts) and get the same effect for all the fonts I've tried. I
> also note that in the preferences, the default zoom is 150%, which seems
> odd.
>
> I wonder if the problem has to do with the font's being used. I've
> looked
> through the LyX documentation, but it's not clear how to use
> non-bitmapped
> fonts in Tools->Preferences-> ... -> Screen Fonts. I haven't found any
> reference to this problem in the LyX documentation, LyX mailing lists, or
> anywhere else
>
> FYI I'm running on Arch Linux. I tried installing texlive. That had no
> apparent effect, although I it's not clear whether LyX detects it
> automatically, of if I have to do something.
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to fix this. I really can't proceed
> to
> learn and use LyX if I can't fix this.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
