On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:38, Andreas Simon wrote:
> On Sunday 18 August 2002 16:03, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > This
> > definitely changed the font rendering here, however it doesn't
> > really look quite right, especially on my laptop. It certainly
> > doesn't display text as well as applications which use Xft (like
> > GTK2 stuff - X-Chat for example). I'm not seeing problems like the
> > above quoted, though - I just don't like the current rendering
> > particularly, it's not as good as Xft.
>
> Using the Microsoft fonts the font rendering of Mozilla/Galeon is
> greatly increased if I change
> pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", true);
> to
> pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
> in file /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1b/defaults/pref/unix.js .
Wow! Bloody good tip, works a treat here. Thanks. But going by the
comments in that file - it's probably advisable to install the -plf
version of FreeType2 before doing this (i.e., the version with hinting
enabled.)
--
adamw
