[ltp] Re: font rendering

[edonia]

Am Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:32:13 +0200 schrieb 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
> 

In my Opinion, Mandrake has the best font rendering engine at Linux. With
my T40p and the 100dpi font packages it is indescribable how beneficially
feels reading. Of course with antialaising...

edonia

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