On Monday 11 March 2002 20:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Vadim Plessky wrote: | > * upgrade to FreeType 2.0.9 released recently | > It has major imprrovements over prevuous releases, especially comparing | > to FT 2.0.6! | | I agree completly:) | | > Ok, I have different opinion on this. | > Please take a look at my XftConfig, which IMO is superior to the one | > distributed with LM 8.0 / XF 4.1.0 which I am running on "production" | > partition. | | No doubt it is superior to the one in x 4.1.0. But if I look at your | XftConfig it seems you enable AA for fonts between 8 and 14? which is
Yes, that's correct. Good AA in Linux/FT is one of major benefits over Windows. Enabling AA in Windows for those font sizes is useless (even if you found a way to do it), but it works fine with KDE/Qt. I am using it since upgrade to XF4.1.0 (May 2001?) | useless since AA is the default (or did you turn it off somewhere and i | missed it?) and even if it was useful, why would I want normal fonts | looking smudgy while I have big fonts looking jagged and small fonts | unreadable because they are build with to few pixels? No, I don't turn AA off, I use it with all fonts. It also helps to debug FreeType bugs, and bugs in some publicaly available fonts (including MS Web fonts) I can tell you that Verdana and Linotype Palatino are almost *bug-free* fonts, and can be used even with FT 2.0.3 (with TT bytecode interpreter compiled-in) I also found that Arial and Times New Roman (TNR) are very buggy, and Georgia and Tahoma somewhere "in-between" So, if you want to use buggy fonts (like Arial), you may want to turn AA off for those sizes. Also: you may want to check Freetype and Freetype-devel mailing list archives, a lot of rendering problems (incl. Arial and TNR) were discussed on those lists. As about "big fonts looking jagged and small fonts unreadable" - pls provide more details which fonts you tested, what exact point sizes, etc. I guess the best place to discuss it is FT mailing lists. | | Danny Cheers, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
