On Wednesday 21 November 2001 09:36 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > Hi all, > > Given the recent release of Windows XP, I ran into a lot of folks who > didn't realise X11, GNOME and KDE could already do "ClearType"-style > sub-pixel font rendering. > > As a result, mainly to increase awareness (but also hopefully to be of > help to relative newbies), I've written up a quick guide to this based on > my own experience, at > > http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html > > Any comments/tweaks would be welcome ;)
nice page... FWIW - I've some similar tips up for a while at http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jbyrne/linux.htm if you'd like to compare notes. I just looked at the tips you mentioned at the Mandrake and SuSE sites... and I believe they indirectly left out a couple of subtle items WRT fonts.scale, fonts.dir, and encodings.dir - ttmkfdir -o|> fonts.scale generates fonts.scale 'mkfontdir /some/path' generates a fonts.dir file 'mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/encodings' will create encodings.dir and fonts.dir files in one shot. Slightly off-topic ;-) - one important beginning for a number of users is grabbing/installing a recent version of XFree86 (preferably 4.1.0)... and it's generally a good idea to compile X on your own machine. - Jason _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
