Re: [LI] Font smoothing

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Wooden Knight wrote:
> I'm new so be gentle.
> 
> Installed Linux 6.01. Installed GNOME. Worked on Netscape Comm 4.61. But the 
> fonts are waaaaaay too jagged. Soon as "-1" directive comes in, the display 
> goes berserk. It's 100% UNreadable in "-2" (if you know your HTML, you'll 
> understand I'm speaking of reducing the font size). If I increase the font 
> size, the default size is becomes too bulky for easy reading... GAWD! I'm 
> gowin craizee! BTW, I don't care about any other application since I'm using 
> this system only for web-browsing.

One way to fix this is to go to Edit->Preferences->Fonts and
select non-scalable fonts and disable scaling. Also in your /etc/XF86Config
have 

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"   

If you want to use some nice fonts, a good alternative is to use the TTF font
servers. Read the archives for more discussion on that.

I've found that freetype (http://www.freetype.org) based font servers are
good for most cases, however, the fonts are still not readable at very
low sizes. I don't know if this is because of freetype being bad at small
sizes or some undesirable interaction between X and freetype.

	-Arun

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