Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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. It generally should show up with other video card settings; many video drivers expose lots of options under Windows. > | (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. Something like: xgamma -gamma 1.2 will adjust it ('man xgamma' for details), assuming your video driver supports it. Not all do, even when the hardware has the support. Regards, Owen _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
