Question about fonts.conf configuration

ICO · 01-11-2004, 10:52 PM

When I used RedHat 9 before, and I add this section in the fonts.conf configuration file:

Code:

<!-- 
 This expression is added by Akito Hirai<akito@kde.gr.jp> for convenience.
 It can be used to make artificial bold versions in client libraries/applications.
 -->
	<match target="font">
		<test name="weight">
			<const>medium</const>
		</test>
		<test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more">
			<const>medium</const>
		</test>
		<edit name="weight" mode="assign">
			<if>
				<more>
					<name>spacing</name>
					<const>proportional</const>
				</more>
				<const>demibold</const>	<!-- for monospace    -->
				<const>bold</const>	<!-- for proportional -->
			</if>
		</edit>
	</match>

<match target="font">
	<test name="pixelsize" compare="less_eq">
		<double>16</double>
	</test>
	<test name="pixelsize" compare="more_eq">
		<double>8</double>
	</test>
	<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
		<bool>f</bool>
	</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
	<test name="size" compare="less_eq">
		<double>16</double>
	</test>
	<test name="size" compare="more_eq">
		<double>8</double>
	</test>
	
	<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
		<bool>f</bool>
	</edit>
</match>

The font will be thinner, and it looks very nice. Now I use Slackware 9.1, when I add this section, it looks thinner, howevery, it looks like writing a word when your hand is shaking. I don't know how to describe, and it will be appricated if anyone can tell me how to take a screenshot. And I really need help about this problem.

Thanks a lot

slakmagik · 01-12-2004, 01:25 AM

Fonts mystify me - can't help there. But this will serve as a bump, at least. The screenshot I can do - you can grab a screenshot with 'import'. 'import filename' in the simplest form (click on a window to grab it). 'import -window root filename' if you want the whole screen. Or with the gimp or probably most any graphics app.

ICO · 01-12-2004, 03:49 AM

Thanks digiot!

And here is the screenshot, the font shape is very bad.

slakmagik · 01-12-2004, 02:59 PM

That's dropline gnome? Wow. Not supposed to look like that. What it looks like is that anti-aliasing is not on. DLG should definitely be compiled to support that and *should* have been configured to display it. Possibly there's a Gnome setting for that or possibly something's seriously messed up. But the best I can do is narrow it down to an anti-aliasing issue, which might help with searching the problem, anyway.

Maybe try taking out that section you put in. As I say, DLG rewrote half my system the time I tried it and shouldn't need any further tinkering to get decent fonts.

ICO · 01-12-2004, 05:42 PM

If I don't use the codes, it looks all right, however, for those are bold words, it will look so thick and unnormal.

slakmagik · 01-12-2004, 08:32 PM

Hm. I know nothing about fonts and don't even understand the xml but, as a shot in the dark, mybe see what putting the section back in and changing the 'f's in the anti-alias 'bool' sections to 't' does? Or leaving it out and just trying to mess with fonts directly through the DLG GUI tools? I would say to hack at it with the CLI tools but I don't even know what those are for the most part. /me hates X (and fonts in general). But I gotta live with it to use mozilla and so on.