I've noticed that antialiased fonts render differently on Red Hat than other distros I've tried. The fonts render slightly thicker, and the fuzziness is less obvious. I've been trying, mostly out of curiosity, to find out what makes the difference, but have had no luck tracking down whatever changes or adjustments Red Hat made.
How does Red Hat do it?
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0700, James J. Ramsey wrote:
I've noticed that antialiased fonts render differently on Red Hat than other distros I've tried. The fonts render slightly thicker, and the fuzziness is less obvious. I've been trying, mostly out of curiosity, to find out what makes the difference, but have had no luck tracking down whatever changes or adjustments Red Hat made.
How does Red Hat do it?
Font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, and when running GNOME also overridden by the stuff in Preferences->Fonts
Havoc
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 23:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0700, James J. Ramsey wrote:
I've noticed that antialiased fonts render differently on Red Hat than other distros I've tried. The fonts render slightly thicker, and the fuzziness is less obvious. I've been trying, mostly out of curiosity, to find out what makes the difference, but have had no luck tracking down whatever changes or adjustments Red Hat made.
How does Red Hat do it?
Font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, and when running GNOME also overridden by the stuff in Preferences->Fonts
Actually, I've tried to keep most rendering configuration (for non-GNOME) in /etc/X11/Xresources. The relevant part is:
! hintstyle: medium means that (for Postscript fonts) we ! position the stems for maximum constrast and consistency ! but don't force the stems to integral widths. hintnone, ! hintslight, and hintfull are the other possibilities. Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium Xft.hinting: true
Note that this part requires a patch to Xft that is *not* upstream. XFree86-4.2.99.3-loadtarget.patch ... the rendering code is there in standard FreeType, but there is no way of configuring it through standard Xft.
Regards, Owen
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