[ltp] font rendering

[Hartwig, Thomas]

Hi Antiphon,

you can see what I mean in the lower right corner of Konqueror of the 
first screenshot. The text "Chretien, Martin..." is not antialiased and 
becomes crispy in the edges. This is even more worse with smaller font 
sizes.

But thank you anyhow, I will try to look at the latest code.

Thomas

Antiphon wrote:
>>Hartwig, Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>thank you, this helps me turning off antialiasing in the right way. I
>>>have set GDK_USE_XFT=0 before starting mozilla to turn it off.
>>>
>>>But my main problem is when I have turned it off, the TTF-fonts look
>>>very ugly.
> 
> My advice would be to just download the latest version of freetype2 and 
> compile it from source. Most distros automatically enable the hinting but the 
> ft hinting isn't as good as other OSes'. You'd have better luck just trying 
> the stock Freetype which has hinting disabled. Freetype used to be poor at 
> rendering antialiased fonts but it has been significantly improved thanks to 
> some excellent rendering code written by David McGill(?) in 2003.
> 
> As an example, check out some of these screenshots from my desktop. In the 
> second shot, I visited Looky which uses Verdana as its default font.
> 
> 
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=11670&file1=11670-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=Emerald+Colour+scheme
> 
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=2&id=7919&file1=7919-1.png&file2=7919-2.png&file3=7919-3.png&name=KDE+3.2++alpha1