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slave:
I just read the excellent HOWTO on theregister.co.uk  called "fabulous fonts under linux" where it described how to enable the Apple-patented bytecode interpreter and recompile freetype2 with it.  After restarting X, I was amazed at the improvement, especially when I turned *off* anti-aliasing.  Take a look at these pictures:

before freetype hack

after freetype hack

As you can see, the difference is unbelievable when looking at non-AA truetype fonts (the font in the example is Verdana)

However, in RH8 I am clueless as to how I'd go about telling XFT to only AA *certain* font sizes, namely, ones above size 12.  You see, AA is very nice at larger sizes, but it gives me a headache at small sizes.  I like sharpness at small sizes!!   So, does anyone know how to tell fontconfig or whatever RH8 uses to only AA sizes above 12?  Note that the old XFT synax (match all size > 12 or whatever) doesn't work because RH8 uses XFT2 and fontconfig which has much different syntax.

slave:
Ah ha!! Figured it out on my own.  Just add this to your /etc/fonts.conf in redhat linux:

<!--
  Don't antialias small fonts
-->
        <match>
                <test name="size" compare="less">
                        <int>13</int>
                </test>
                <test name="size" compare="more">
                        <int>8</int>
                </test>
                <edit name="antialias">
                        <bool>false</bool>
                </edit>
        </match>

Guys with red hat 8, you REALLY need to do this, the difference is amazing! Especially when combined with XFT mozilla.

voidmain:
I don't know, I think my fonts look pretty good already. Especially after adding all the TTF fonts:

http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/redhat_8_fonts_adding_truetype.html

What don't I understand, and is there something I should add to my instructions above?

I also have to say that I have never seen the fonts look that ugly in either of the links even without doing any changes to my RH8 system (no offense). Something just looks wrong in your screenshots.

[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Nobber:
A link to the article would have been nice.

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
SuSE comes with a font installer which helped it become my fav distro by a few points.

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