horrible unaliased fonts for google earth 6 on slackware 13.37 64-bit
I installed Google Earth 6 from slackbuilds.org on Slackware 13.37 64-bit w/ multilib
The fonts are horrible jagged and unaliased. Googling around I found two solutions - one deleting the libQt libs from /opt/google. That only works for Google Earth 5, however. The second was installing the MS ttf webcore fonts so I installed webcore-fonts, also from slackbuilds. This had no effect whatsoever - still the same crappy jagged fonts. Next experiment, I booted into Linux Mint 12 on another partition. On installing Google Earth 6, I was again greeted by crappy fonts, just like in Slack. Then I tried installing their webcore fonts: ttf-mscore-installer and the result was beautiful fonts. So, I don't get it - why does this solve the problem in Mint, but not Slack. Are ideas? |
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I always disable font smoothing whenever possible, because I'm one of those people who perceive aliased fonts as blurred, like an out-of-focus photo, even when some other people say the settings are perfect. When I have to look at such smoothed fonts for some time, it's straining my eyes that constantly try to focus with no success, and I quickly get a headache. In Windows, for example, when I disable Smear... erm, ClearType, the fonts look perfect for me. So I expected the same improvement on Linux (Ubuntu w/Gnome desktop) when I disabled font smoothing effects. The result was, as you say, that most fonts looked sharp and in perfect focus, but jagged and crappy. I played with the settings a while, but to no avail. I installed mscorefonts, hoping that the Windows fonts look as good as I know them from Windows itself. But no, it was the same edgy appearance. Only when I took the original TTF files from my Windows machine and installed them on Ubuntu, it suddenly looked perfect: Crisp and clear, with sharp punch-like edges, and yet smooth and pleasant. So what I'm saying: If you own a copy of Windows as well, try transplanting the original True Type fonts from Windows. The mscorefonts package available for Linux is obvously just a bad imitation. [X] Doc CPU |
Very interesting info. I thought the jagged look only came from being unaliased, but I stand corrected.
I just copied all my fonts from my windows7 partition in /usr/local/share/fonts and then just to be sure, disabled all other font directories in xorg.conf There was a definite improvement in fonts systemwide, but unfortunately there was no change at all in the fonts in google earth - still just as crappy and jagged as ever. I really wish I could figure what's causing that! Quote:
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The Microsoft fonts are excellently hinted, while the Linux imitations are not. Not that well, anyway. Quote:
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