On 02/ 3/10 10:25 AM, Michael Lee wrote:
I find that reading text on OpenSolaris B131 and down to be unpleasant compared
to Mac OS X or Windows 7. Is there any way to make font rendering on par with
either Mac OS X or Windows? Is there any work at Oracle to address this issue?
I doubt you'll ever see font rendering for the freely available versions
of Solaris or OpenSolaris be "as good". In particular, that's primarily
due to the numerous patents surrounding font rendering. You can find
out more about that here:
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
http://eupat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/ttf/index.en.html
While a few patents have expired (as of roughly the end of October last
year) more still remain.
With the right fonts and by changing the settings in System ->
Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Rendering, you might be able to
get closer to what you want.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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