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 had a long-running discussion with a friend who runs Gentoo over why Debian's font rendering looked different... I never believed him that it was quite as bad as he thought until I saw his machine.
I returned home and investigated straight away why Debian's Anti-Aliased
font rendering looks almost as if they're not Anti-Aliased at all!
If you prefer the upstream rendering, do the following:
apt-get source freetype
Edit debian/rules:
Comment out the two "patch" commands marked as "CVS updates"
Comment out the 030-bytecode-interpreter patch
Comment out the 060-freetype2-bitmap-style patch
Comment out the 070-ft2demos-2.1.5-no-rpath patch
If you wish, add a changelog entry appending "hinting1" (or somesuch) to
the version.
Now build your new freetype packages and install them.
Scott
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