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very pretty linux fonts, but...
voidmain:
Yes, but isn't that the standard font installer that comes with the stock KDE 3.x? The one that RedHat ripped out because they didn't want people favoring KDE?
slave:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
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 ]
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Ah Ha! but turn off AA and you'll understand the uglyness. You see, I *don't* like AA on except for font sizes larger than say 13. (That's what Winblows does) Here are some more screenshots to demonstrate the difference between our systems' font rendering.
http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/images/mozilla.png
(void main's rendering of his site)
my rendering of void main's site
void main's openoffice
and mine
Not much of a difference, but notice how the text on my taskbar is *not* antialiased. Comic Sans MS is rendered just barely differently too.
Here
Is a screenshot of different sizes of "Times New Roman" under Mozilla composer.
Personally I don't think my fonts are that shoddy at all!
[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
voidmain:
Now I see the difference! What changes do you think I should make to my font page? I believe the part where I explain how to add the MS fonts is OK but I just need to make the tweaks that you did. Do you think you could hack the page up so a n00b (me) would have no trouble following the instructions?
Another difference might be that when I took those screen shots I was in 800x600 resolution on my laptop where normally I am on my desktop at 1200x1024 and the fonts do look a lot better when logged directly into my desktop. Maybe I should log in there and take a couple of more screenshots and see how they differ to the ones I took at 800x600.
I definitely like the looks of the web page with your tweak!
[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
slave:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
Now I see the difference! What changes do you think I should make to my font page? I believe the part where I explain how to add the MS fonts is OK but I just need to make the tweaks that you did. Do you think you could hack the page up so a n00b (me) would have no trouble following the instructions?
Another difference might be that when I took those screen shots I was in 800x600 resolution on my laptop where normally I am on my desktop at 1200x1024 and the fonts do look a lot better when logged directly into my desktop. Maybe I should log in there and take a couple of more screenshots and see how they differ to the ones I took at 800x600.
I definitely like the looks of the web page with your tweak!
[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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Well, the first thing I did (this is all assuming the truetype fonts are installed of course) was to get the very latest freetype2 tarball, which can be had by clicking here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
Then I untarred the file and uncommented the line
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
from freetype-2.1.3/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
After that I did ./configure, then make and su to root and make install (it overwrites whatever version of freetype you already have installed)
Still, everything is antialiased and we don't want that. We only want to AA font sizes 14 and up, so we add these lines to the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file:
--- Code: ---
--- End code ---
Restart X and that's it I believe!
voidmain:
Ok, thanks for that! I'll do some messing around and update my tips page. I may change it to be an RPM hack though as I prefer to work with RPMs if at all possible to keeps everything in the dependency database. In fact I should just create a freetype source RPM with all of those changes for RedHat 8 and see if I can find someone to host it (I don't want to put it on my home connection).
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