[oclug]Fonts revisited

[Petro]

On January 27, 2003 12:38 pm, Shad Young wrote:
> Here is a screenshot of the same page for comparison.
>
> http://ascendant.obone.ca:8180/snapshot1.png
>
> You will notice the marked difference in font rendering abilities
> between yours and mine.
>
> OO.org is also very ugly.
>
> http://ascendant.obone.ca:8180/snapshot2.png
>
> I have tried TTFs, but they all show up "Bold". I have played with all
> the various X based fonts and you see the results... AA is on, but it
> does not work within Moz/galeon/NS/oo.org or any other non-KDE aware
> application.
>
> Shad
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:35, Petro wrote:
> > On January 26, 2003 06:46 pm, Shad Young wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:29, Chris H wrote:
> > > > On January 26, 2003 05:59 pm, Shad Young wrote:
> > > > > So, a pet peeve of mine has always been the somewhat god awful font
> > > > > rendering abilities of X. That being said, it has come a long way,
> > > > > and as long as I don't make the mistake of importing TTF, KDE's
> > > > > anti-aliasing capabilities work well enough within native KDE/GNOME
> > > > > application.
> > > >
> > > > No expert at this end but the following two articles were very
> > > > helpfull to get things working on my SuSE install.
> > > >
> > > > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_helvetica.html
> > > >
> > > > Note: also review the references at the bottom of the page.
> > > >
> > > > Most but not all of this information should be generic. Let me know
> > > > if its applicable on your mandrake system.
> > > >
> > > > /ch
> > >
> > > Good article. Confirms what I suspected. Alas solves no problems as I
> > > have played with those setting already. Glad to see I was on the right
> > > track. I figure its the driver.
> > >
> > > NS has some "high resolution" fonts to use with moz, but they seem to
> > > have the same nasty tendency to be over heavy much the same as WinTTF.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Shad
> >
> > I am not sure if am understanding you correctly. However, all of my fonts
> > look fine, in all of the applications. Here I've included a screenshot of
> > Mozilla, tell me is this is what you are looking. Or are you trying to
> > accomplish something else?
> >
> > http://kajigger.cjb.net/mozilla.png
> >
> >
> > Petro
> >
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If you are still using Gentoo, (i remember seeing you announce the fact) go to 
the gentoo forums at  http://forums.gentoo.org. There are a few threads i 
remember seeing about all of the above issues. Look in the "Desktop" or "Tips 
and Tricks" sections.

On my system, I have Mozilla built against xft2. Therefore all the fonts show 
up fine, same goes for fluxbox, and whatever other gnome or kde applications 
i am using.


Petro