Font rendering in F13

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:26:53AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It already is, in Rawhide. Upgrade an F13 machine to Rawhide and you'll
> see noticeably different font rendering.

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532


> (Though it's really not as simple as that story makes it seem, which is
> why we didn't do it for F13. Bytecode interpreting only helps fonts
> which are actually designed with bytecode interpreting in mind. Some of
> the fonts we use have been designed more with the use of autohinting in
> mind, and look worse if you just use bytecode interpreting everywhere. I
> believe the idea for F14 is to try and determine which fonts should use
> which method in some way.)

Yeah. If you look at the "with bytecode" and "without bytecode" attachments
in the above bug, you'll see Inconsolata become very ugly.




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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences