On Tuesday 10 April 2007 06:36, James Watkins wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 14:06, Emils wrote: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/0252229&from=rss > > > > "openSUSE 10.2 no longer enables ClearType. (which would improve > > the appearance of fonts) > > Is that the same ClearType that makes the fonts go all fuzzy in > Windows? I love that feature , it makes me feel like I've had a > 4-pack of Special Brew.
The whole business of optimizing font rendering on low-to-medium-resolution devices such as CRTs and LCD displays is very non-trivial. I have found that it takes a lot of trial-and-error experimentation to get a combination of font rendering parameters and type faces for any given video card / display combination. It should be noted that VGA introduces a very noticeable amount of "blur," as well. It seems to go unnoticed with CRTs, but becomes starkly visible in an A/B comparison with a DVI-connected LCD display. But even then, it depends on the video interface, whether VGA or DVI. Tom's Hardware did an in-depth review of DVI cards a few years ago. Their conclusion was that ATI had the best, and it's what I chose when I got my first DVI-equipped LCD display. I am very pleased with the quality of its video and especially its type display (once the system software is suitably optimized, of course). The best I've ever done is under SuSE Linux 10.0 with the so-called bytecode interpreter enabled. The final version of openSUSE 10.2 does almost as well. I've never got a Windows installation to do as well. And Adobe (of all people) doesn't do all that well in Reader, either, which handles all its own font rendering. > Cheers, > James. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
