On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:46 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:52, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > These are GOOD fonts. Apple uses professionally-made fonts with an > > excellent renderer. Freetype is nice, but it isn't half as good at small > > font sizes, even with good fonts, and the antialiasing that it does is > > pretty bad - it looks like it doesn't take hinting into account at all. > > Notice how much clearer the Windows fonts are on windows than they are on > > Linux. Also, the fonts that come with Mandrake are the donated ones most > > of which are horrible for on-screen display and do not render well at > > small font sizes, especially when AA is on. > > Sheesh. Yes, the hinting is rubbish because of stupid patent issues, > this has been gone over before. This is why the PLF rpm looks better > than the MDK one. This is also part of the point of freetype 2.1.x - it > has a different, non-patent-infringing (supposedly) hinting mechanism. > But I find with good fonts (the Microsoft ones) and PLF freetype2, font > rendering is excellent, indeed a lot better than Windows.
I tried the PLF freetype2, looks about the same as the stock one. Definitely worse than Windows. Antialiased fonts that it produces look pretty bad. -- -- Igor
