Hi,
I've been doing some research and experimenting a little bit with
different configurations lately in an effort to try to get these fonts in
X under control. In the process I've made a relatively surprising
discovery, namely that fonts look better if they are served up in xfree86
than if I configure xfs to exclusively handle fonts.
My test scenario consists of enabling only these fontpaths in XF86Config-4
and commenting out the local font servers unix/:7100 and unix/:7110 (I'm
using XFree86-4.2.1-6 from debian unstable, btw):
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscalled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
Then I tried using xfs with the same fontpaths, while commenting out these
in XF86Config-4. On my system, these fonts look *remarkably* better when
I don't use xfs--that is when I just whatever font server is internal to
xfree86. Is there anyone that can explain why this is so?
Another thing I noticed is that the fonts in Mozilla, my test application
of choice, get uglier when I uncomment these two lines in XF86Config-4.
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
I've tried allowing xfs-xtt to serve up my TrueType and CID directories
as well, but I get the same result--uglier fonts in Mozilla. Is this just
because those unscaled fonts in /misc, /75dpi, and /100dpi are cleaner
under X, and when X is forced to use them only, everything looks good?
I'm pretty confused.
Just for completeness, I'm running Gnome2.2 while doing all this, and my
font config section at the moment is this:
Section "Files"
# FontPath "unix/:7110" # local font
server
# FontPath "unix/:7100"
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
# FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
# FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscalled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection
And this gives me the best results I've been able to achieve so far. But,
I thought using xfs was a *good* thing to do, and that truetype fonts made
things prettier...Does not using xfs hurt performance much in X? Font
gurus, please help.
Jesse
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