Re: Terminal Font Woes

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 06:41, [email protected] wrote:
> If you want sharp text:
> 
> 1) rebuild Freetype with hinting enabled: reinstall...
> (requires a one line change to freetype at compile time).

Can you do this using a src rpm?  IS there a src rpm?  I really hate to
start inflicting "make install" on an RPM based system but it's worth a
try.

Thanks.

K


> 2) if you use an LCD, enable subpixel decimation in your XftConfig
> file.
> 
> 3) make sure you have high quality hinted fonts installed (e.g. the
> Microsoft web fonts).
> 
> If you do this, you end up with sharper, better text than on Windoze
> with "Cleartype" enabled or on Macintosh.
> 					- Jim
> 
> 
> > Sender: [email protected]
> > From: "Shahms E. King" <[email protected]>
> > Date: 24 Jul 2002 18:57:17 -0700
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Terminal Font Woes
> > --
> > Actually, you'll note they are merely anti-aliased, but working, rather
> > than anti-aliased and really, really broken. (I do however, wish there
> > was an easier way of getting non-AA fonts on a per-app basis--rather
> > than using the environment variable, blurry text looks fine for most
> > things, but I like my terminals "crisper").
> > 
> > --Shahms
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:05, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> > > Nice job fixing the menus on the latest build, however the fonts in
> > > gnome-terminal are still fouled up.
> > >
> > > Could it be from so much fussing around with older build packages the
> > > latest build is not working properly?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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