On Saturday 06 July 2002 6:57 am, Owen Taylor wrote: | Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Monday 24 June 2002 1:31 am, Owen Taylor wrote: | > | I've put up some screenshots at: | > | | > | http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/fonts/gamma-screenshots/ | > | > Owen, | > | > In my opinion, screenshot "With improved hints and gamma correction" | > (which I believe you rfer to) has serious renderin artefacts. | > Width (*boldness*) of diagonal stems (v w x y z V W X Y X Z ) and curved | > glyphs (a b c d g o p q s B C D G O Q S 3 5 6 7 8 9) is inconsistent | > with widths of horizontal and vertical stems. | > I think rendering on screenshot "With improved hints" (no.2) is better | > than on screenshot with gamma correction (no.3) | | It depends on the gamma of your monitor. It sounds like your | monitor has a low gamma... on most people's monitors, the gamma | corrected versions should appear *more* consistent in stem width.
I wish I could arrange gamma for my monitor - but I don't know which tool should I use. I have Compaq Presario notebook, with 15" TFT LCD. I run XFree86 4.2.0, Qt 3.0.4 and KDE 3.0.2. Of course, laptop came with Win98SE, not Linux. But I can't find any Gamma correction utility for Windows as well. If I remember correctly - XFree86 installer was not asking me to correct gamma, too, so I (as many other users) am not aware that it's necessary to adjust something after setup. If you think that Gamma should be corrected on any Desktop (XFree86 install) - I think some way to do it automatically, or semi-automatically, should be added to XFree86 (or distribution-specific) installer. | | (But they may appear less attractive in other ways ... mainly | being too light.) | | If you do a web search you should be able to find some gamma | test patterns; you can then play around with 'xgamma' until | you have a gamma of 2.2 and see if the screenshots look | better. Aha. [vad@VPlessky X11]$ xgamma -> Red 1.000, Green 1.000, Blue 1.000 And how I should *play* with it? Sorry for asking, but this is not obvious. Are there any KDE-based or GNOME-based utilities to correct (and test) gamma? | | Regards, | Owen | _______________________________________________ | Render mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render Regards, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
