[ltp] making non-antialiased fonts looks nice.

[noc ops]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:51:47PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
> 
>>Looking for anyone who can help me with the ugly fonts output. I've
>>spent 80 hours on this issue and I'm still struggling to make my
>>Thinkpad T43 w/ ubuntu 5.10 come close to microsoft fonts output or
>>better yet similar to Apple/OSX render fonts.
> 
> 
> I find my fonts prettier in Ubuntu than on Windows.
> 
> I've installed the msttcorefonts package (which contains Arial, Verdana
> and the other MS fonts), and chose subpixel rendering and full hinting
> in the GNOME font settings dialog.  I also set the DPI to 96 in the same
> place.
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I've been trying to apt-get msttcorefonts but haven't found it :(

Where did you get yours from?


> 
> 
>>I want to know how can they be improved and what did you do to fix it.
>>
>>The fonts always seem slightly blurry and jagged and feel like I'm
>>straining my eyes in order to get a clear image.
> 
> 
> Do you use subpixel rendering, or just plain antialiasing?  I strongly
> recommend subpixel rendering if you have an LCD screen (and since you
> speak about a T43 laptop, you do).
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That's what I have setup.


> 
> I also remember that if you run 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig', and choose
> to use the autohinting, then MS fonts will look bad.  I chose the 'Native'
> tuning.
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This was one of the steps I took as well. I selected native.



regards,
/virendra


> 
> HTH,
> Marius Gedminas