On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:01:48PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > "NG" == Neal Gompa writes:
>
> NG> Most of these fonts look like they are licensed appropriately, the
> NG> only problem is the Ubuntu fonts, which have been noted to have a
> NG> non-free license[3] (unless someone
> "NG" == Neal Gompa writes:
NG> Most of these fonts look like they are licensed appropriately, the
NG> only problem is the Ubuntu fonts, which have been noted to have a
NG> non-free license[3] (unless someone can get Canonical to fix it).
I had a look at the license at
That would be untrue.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/smooth/ftsmooth.c?h=VER-2-8-1#n357
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Ahmad Samir wrote:
> I've been using Harmony since 2.8.1, compiled locally. I didn't notice
> the ftsmooth patch in 2.9, thanks for the hint, I'll look into that.
> Although I have to saw I didn't notice any drastic changes between 2.8.1
> and 2.9 in Fedora, but I'll test disabling that patch all
On 11/11/2018 01:10 PM, Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> All I remember saying is that subpixel rendering is
> not essential to getting nicely rendered fonts, as you can see in Qt5:
>
> https://i.postimg.cc/t4XnfGzt/Bildschirmfoto-vom-2018-11-11-11-45-41.png
>
On 12/11/2018 03:35, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Ahmad Samir wrote:
Try setting the lcdfilter in your local fonts.conf (
~/.config/fontconfing/fonts.conf); or better yet, try building freetype
with the "spr" patch disabled. This way freetype will use Harmony
(available since freetype 2.8.1 [2]), a
Ahmad Samir wrote:
> Try setting the lcdfilter in your local fonts.conf (
> ~/.config/fontconfing/fonts.conf); or better yet, try building freetype
> with the "spr" patch disabled. This way freetype will use Harmony
> (available since freetype 2.8.1 [2]), a technique that offers LCD
> rendering
On 11/11/2018 19:31, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 11/11/2018 19:23, Tom Hughes wrote:
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That's interesting because I'm seeing the same thing in F29 but with
vertical edges on a non-rotated display!
I assumed it was related to subpixel antialiasing being enabled but
turning that off doesn't seem
On 11/11/2018 19:23, Tom Hughes wrote:
[]
That's interesting because I'm seeing the same thing in F29 but with
vertical edges on a non-rotated display!
I assumed it was related to subpixel antialiasing being enabled but
turning that off doesn't seem to help.
I'd say it looks more blueish
Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote:
> 2. The rest seems to be mostly boilerplate font replacements? Standard
> stuff like Arial is already covered by fontconfig/Fedora defaults, other
> replacements like Arial Black are not really replacements, but wholesale
> changes. A replacement for a font family should
On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 17:23 +, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 11/11/2018 17:16, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote:
> > > Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution!
> > >
> > > With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig
On 11/11/2018 17:16, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote:
Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution!
With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder if
some of the configuration settings currently
On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson wrote:
> Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable distribution!
>
> With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder if
> some of the configuration settings currently implemented in
>
Le dimanche 11 novembre 2018 à 12:10 +, Nikolaus Waxweiler a écrit :
>
> It's also technically (mostly) impossible because Windows and macOS do
> correct font rendering (linear alpha blending and gamma correction to
> various degrees) which on X11/Wayland currently only Qt5 does (see
>
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 17:57 -0500, Neal Gompa a écrit :
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM wrote:
> It's a lot less noticeable if
> you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not).
BTW, those have become pretty cheap last time I looked, some of them are
cheaper than many FHD
I had a quick look at fedora-better-fonts and found this:
1. The defaults in
https://github.com/silenc3r/fedora-better-fonts/blob/master/fontconfig-enhanced-defaults/19-enhanced-defaults.conf
are redundant. Turning off the autohinter and selecting hintslight...
will turn it back on :D The LCD
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 17:03 -0500, Neal Gompa a écrit :
Hi
> Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are
> no longer applicable.
That’s a gross over simplification “render fonts like windows” has long
been impossible for legal reasons, but “render fonts like
Le samedi 10 novembre 2018 à 16:43 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org a écrit :
> >
> > And Fedora is the only distribution I know of
> > that actually actively maintains a very large fontconfig
> > configuration
> > for every single font.
>
> I wasn't aware of this?
It's not large, fontconfig xml
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 at 03:53, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a lot of text on the web renders really poorly without
> > rgba subpixel rendering (aka ClearType). It's a lot less noticeable if
> > you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not).
>
> I have a
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 9:53 PM Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a lot of text on the web renders really poorly without
> > rgba subpixel rendering (aka ClearType). It's a lot less noticeable if
> > you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not).
>
> I have
Neal Gompa wrote:
> Unfortunately, a lot of text on the web renders really poorly without
> rgba subpixel rendering (aka ClearType). It's a lot less noticeable if
> you're lucky enough to have a 4K display (which I do not).
I have a 1280×1024 LCD and I think subpixel rendering looks a lot sharper
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are no
> longer applicable.
>
>
> As of very recently, Marik did make one change: subpixel rendering is now
> enabled by default
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
Most of the defaults upstream are largely due to legal issues that are
no longer applicable.
As of very recently, Marik did make one change: subpixel rendering is
now enabled by default in Fedora's freetype package (if you have the
latest
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 2:50 PM wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> Does anyone actually take care of our fonts stuff anymore?
>
>
> Off the top of my head, there's Akira Tagoh covering fontconfig both upstream
> and downstream, Marek Kasik covering freetype
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
Does anyone actually take care of our fonts stuff anymore?
Off the top of my head, there's Akira Tagoh covering fontconfig both
upstream and downstream, Marek Kasik covering freetype downstream, and
Nikolaus Waxweiler handling freetype
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:58 AM Nicolas Mailhot
wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 09 novembre 2018 à 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson a écrit :
> > Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable
> > distribution!
> >
> > With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder
> > if
> >
Le vendredi 09 novembre 2018 à 20:36 -0600, Martin Jackson a écrit :
> Hello everyone, and thanks to one and all for a remarkable
> distribution!
>
> With the coverage of the freeworld fontconfig enhancements, I wonder
> if
> some of the configuration settings currently implemented in
>
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