On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mike Eheler wrote:
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> I'm using GNOME as my window manager of choice. My screen resolution is
> 1024x768x24bit. I then install my Windows fonts with DrakFont. When I go
> to view a website in Galeon that has Verdana on it (in this case it's
> Verdana 9pt) the font it displays looks HORRIBLE. It's *bold* for some
> bizarre reason, and it's all blotchy as if the result of some inept
> attempt at anti-aliasing. All I want is for my Verdana TTF font to look
> NORMAL. That meaning the way it looks in every other occasion (in
> Windows, Mandrake 8.1, etc).
Well, as I see from your screen shot, it looks like galeon is using normal
AA for Verdana. I did not know (use kde mostly) we had xft support for
galeon in cooker now, but I think with currect freetype2 and XftConfig
this is the expected behaviour. Also, I do not think the font is bold.
You can either turnoff anti-aliasing or,
and this will improve your font handling drastically is install freetype
2.0.8 and enable the bytecode interpreter in
include/freetype/config/ftoption.h line 314:
#undef TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
change to:
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
(which is sadly not on cooker yet, and will as I understand it, not
be in 8.2). And to get rid of these OVERaliased fonts at normal size put:
match
any size > 8
any size < 15
edit
antialias = false;
in /etc/X11/XftConfig. I've no idea if this will be applied before
release.
Danny
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