Interesting. I'll try that edit for XftConfig you provided at the bottom. Thanks!
Mike On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 01:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mike Eheler wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > >
