Hello, I moved recently from SuSE10.0 (freetype2-2.1.10-4) to SuSE10.3 (freetype2-2.3.5 with sub-pixel enabled), and the rendering of fonts (e.g. Arial) appears to have changed: out of the box, the letters appear taller and thinner in 2.3.5. After trying various things, I found that I get closest to the 10.0 appearance when I turn hinting off in my ~/.fonts.conf.
But the letters still seemed a little fuzzy compared to 2.1.10, so I took a couple of screenshots (gmail opened in firefox), and zoomed in to check. I've uploaded an image at http://www.isical.ac.in/~mandar/10.3-vs-10.jpg (the part on the left is from SuSE 10.3). I'm not sure I'm expressing this correctly, but it appears to me that the "amount" of anti-aliasing is excessive in 2.3.5, in the sense that the characters have too much grey around them (notice how the 'p' and 'c' are touching, as are o, o and g). Is there any way to control the degree of anti-aliasing via .fonts.conf, or is this built into the code? Thanks for any suggestions, Mandar. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
