I give up!
I wasn't able to have good looking msfonts without antialias.
So, I activated font antialias in my desktop. In this way the msfonts in
"normal" mode are rendered correctly, that is they appear exactly as
they would under Windows. The problem is with the "bold" texts: they
take up more space, the characters seems to be more spaced, then under
Windows.
Is it a known difference?
Is there a way to make bold fonts appear exactly as they do in Windows?
Thanks.
Federico Giannici wrote:
For my work I have to look at web pages EXACTLY as they appear on
Windows (with the same appearance, dimension and spacing).
With OpenBSD 4.1, I disabled fonts antialias and recompiled the FreeType
library with the patented TrueType hinting. It worked perfectly, and
msttcorefonts appear exactly as they do on Windows.
Now I tried to upgraded my desktop PC to OpenBSD 4.5, but I wasn't able
to activate the TrueType hinting.
I have commented out the "#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING"
line in "xenocara/lib/freetype/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" and
recompiled the library. The change had some effect because the library
changed it's size, but there was NO change in font appearance.
I tried with Firefox, Thunderbid, Pidgin... They all continue to show
ugly fonts (without hints).
What I missed?
Please give me any hint, I cannot remain with 4.1 forever... :-(
Thanks.
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