On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:25 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/01/29 16:30 (GMT+0100) Istvan Gabor apparently typed:
> 
> > I have a problem that might be related to the fontconfig 
> > system.  I have a SUSE 10.1 and a SUSE 10.2 installation on 
> > the same hardware (on different partitions).  I also have 
> > installed the same version of NVIDIA drivers.  I've set the 
> > display resolution to the same as well (96 DPI).  Despite of this 
> > the Arial font looks different on the two systems. The 
> > differences between SUSE 10.1 and 10.2 that might be related 
> > to this are:
> > xorg-x11 - different versions
> > fontconfig packages - different versions
> > 10.1 has fontconfig-2.3.94-18.4,
> > 10.2 has fontconfig-2.4.1-19.
> 
> > Please help me how I could trace why the same fonts look 
> > different and how to mek them look the same.
> 
> > I attach two images that show how the fonts look on 10.1 and 
> > 10.2.
> 
> You're seeing more than one problem, none of which I believe have
> anything to do with fontconfig (but I may be wrong).
> 
> 1-SUSE 10.2 KDE has broken anti-alias configuration. It defaults to
> "full", but when set to "full" is actually off/none. Go into your
> personal settings and change your anti-alias setting to medium or slight
> according to your own preferences. I use medium.
> 
> 2-The difference in font sizes in the screenshots show clearly that 10.1
> and 10.2 are running different DPI. Since I don't use NVidia drivers I
> can't say exactly how to fix it, but it may be that UseEDIDdpi is being
> used in the latter and not the former or vice versa.
> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html might be helpful in fine-tuning
> your DPI.
> 
> It looks like your 2nd screenshot is the 10.2 one, probably still
> running 84 DPI like you wrote in your other thread, while the first is
> at the higher DPI of 96 as you set it. 16pt at 84 DPI is 18.67px, while
> 16pt at 96 DPI is 21.33px.
> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-helvetica.html might be helpful
> in doing comparisons.
> 
> My 10.2 fonts are good, as were my 10.1 fonts, and their sizes haven't
> changed. I'm using generic Intel & Matrox drivers on various 10.1 & 10.2
> systems.
> -- 
> "

Except for OpenOffice fonts, its been "broken" since 10.1 (9.2,9.3,10.0
looked fine).
(This is with anti-aliasing switched off, as it should be on all LCD
screens, IMHO)


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