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View Poll Results: Do you like the look of the fonts in 13.37
Yes.
51
51.00%
No.
30
30.00%
Like I give a ...... My eyesight is so bad it makes no difference.
I rebuilt freetype and uncommented the Microsoft patents line and rebuilt fontconfig with dugan's patches. In the past, I would also rebuild libXft and cairo with dugan's patches, but I don't think that is necessary anymore.
Yes, I like them; it saves me a step that was necessary in the past, namely to recompile freetype with the bytecode interpreter enabled.
But with the bytecode interpreter enabled, the best fonts to use are well-hinted fonts with antialiasing disabled for smaller sizes. See my 5-step process and local.conf file posted in the "Slackware64 13.37 Font Ugliness" thread for a sample configuration.
Last edited by Poprocks; 04-30-2011 at 12:08 PM.
Reason: omission
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,097
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Originally Posted by bgeddy
I've got to agree with this. Before I read C+H hints I thought I'd either have to permanently use XFCE or switch back to 13.1 as the fonts in KDE were so bad. They actually strained my eyes in certain applications and where effectively unusable. The hint in C+H has put everything back to normal. I think some people must have a very different set up than me because if everyone had the same look to their fonts as I had then no one would vote YES!
I've got to agree with this. Before I read C+H hints I thought I'd either have to permanently use XFCE or switch back to 13.1 as the fonts in KDE were so bad. They actually strained my eyes in certain applications and where effectively unusable. The hint in C+H has put everything back to normal.
I tried to link 10-autohint but no good. In addition it put my konsole caret to the wrong place.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bgeddy
I think some people must have a very different set up than me because if everyone had the same look to their fonts as I had then no one would vote YES!
I just changed my fonts back to the old method using the information found in http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar..._AND_HINTS.TXT, and from the number of threads about this subject I'm probably not the only one.
samac
I voted No.
Thanks for the tip though. Looks a lot better now.
can someone post a screenshot of these new fonts... i don't have time to install 13.37 for a few weeks, but really want to see what the fonts look like
can someone post a screenshot of these new fonts... i don't have time to install 13.37 for a few weeks, but really want to see what the fonts look like
Had to write a config file to antialias bold fonts, otherwise ...
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