I'm trying to get rid of the ugly fonts of my Fedora 4 installation.

In order to do I downloaded the freetype source RPM, enabled BIC hinting and repackaged it toa binary rpm which I installed with the --force flag. This worked well. The problem is that I have an amd64 processor and the steps described above only solved the problem for the x86_64 libs. Some programs (openoffice) still seems to use the i386 libs and I wasn't able to compile them on my 64 bit system. Does anyone have a clue how to do this? Or does any one have pre-packaged rpms? (I'm looking for freetype-2.1.9-2.i386 repackaged with the BIC disable flag unset).

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Whats wrong with the fonts in FC4, they look fine to me.

The FC4 comes with the freetype byte code interpreter switched of which makes fonts look ugly (especially when anti-aliasing is switched of).

ldp.rtin.bz/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/bci.html

I think menus and small text look much better with no anti-aliasing - but of course that is subjective (although I know a lot of people agree). Anyway, I found the rpms with BCI enabled, both for x86_64 and i386 so it's not a problem anymore. I you want to try them to see the difference I can post them.