[ltp] font rendering

[Matthias Himber]

Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 16:05 schrieb Hartwig, Thomas 
t.hartwig-at-crapoud.com |Linux-Thinkpad|:
> Hello Christoph,
>
> I can't believe it. It is working like charme. *echt beeindruckend*
> I will write a detailed report of this later if I investigated what is
> Freetype.org saying about this. I simply can't imagine that someone says
> you don't need the bytecoder interpreter.
>
> Following your detailed description (good work), the fonts are looking
> 100% in the way like windows. I'm afraid I'm voiding patent issues now?!
> What are the backgrounds of your knowledge about this? Is this a fraud now?
>
> At a first glance I can everyone advise to turn on the byte code
> interpreter. The quality difference is amazing. I'm sure antialiasing is
> not good for the eyes reading with small fonts.
>
> So short
> Thomas

Actually, the byte code interpreter increases the Quality by orders of 
magnitude even when AA is turned on, because it aligns the straight parts of 
the characters to pixel boundaries so that only curves need to be smoothed. 
Bitstream Vera looks extremely gorgeous wit bytecode + AA. Turning off AA 
doesn't work well with my screen because its 1400x1050 14,1" (Thinkpad T40p) 
and the fonts don't come optimized for that resolution (Microsoft optimizes 
them for 96dpi, the T40p has ~120dpi).
Much thanks to  Christoph for the info on how to comfortably compile from 
source on SuSE. This has made my desktop _much_ more usable. Now if I only 
could get the DVI port on the port replicator to work...
So long,
	Matthias
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