On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 00:56, Ryan Lovett wrote: > Last week I built GNOME 2.4 using garnome and was pleased to discover a change > in the appearance of the Bitstream Vera font. It looked like screenshots I'd > seen of Red Hat desktops. Just now, however, I installed the debs from the > bxlug site posted recently and found that the Vera font reverted to its > previous appearance. > > I've attached a small screenshot. At the top is the GNOME 2.2 (sid) and GNOME > 2.4 (bxlug) appearance and at the bottom is the GNOME 2.4 (garnome). Note the > difference in the 'a'. I opened the bottom window by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH > to > my garnome build and using /usr/bin/gnome-font-properties from the bxlug > packages. One of the libraries is responsible? Is there a configuration to > enable the bottom appearance no matter which GNOME build I'm using? > > Ryan
I would estimate that the garnome Freetype library has the byte-intepreter enabled; this provides improvements when rendering non-AA fonts, but produces hinting artifacts (look at the lower-case "m" for an example) when using AA fonts. The Debian freetype has the byte-interpreter disabled, which produces nicer glyphs in AA mode. Of course, I could be wrong. I'd bet a pint of your favourite ale I'm not, though. Regards Peter. -- Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
