Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 June 2008 10:19, Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
> Randall R Schulz kirjoitti:
> > On Sunday 15 June 2008 02:17, Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Ok, tested it, looks absolutely horrible. Do you have instructions
> > > to uninstall that? :D
> >
> > Are you saying sub-pixel hinting looks horrible? 'Cause if you are,
> > it's because you haven't reconfigured your fonts properly. And, of
> > course, it's only pertinent to begin with for LCD displays.
>
> What do you mean by reconfiguring fonts? I tryed varius configs,
> hinting style Full, Medium etc, didnt like the output. Fonts looked
> like bolded, blurry or somethiung else etc. I got LCD screen also.

You have to try different fonts to get optimal results. Any change, from 
CRT to LCD, from simple anti-aliasing to hinting (sub-pixel or not), 
requires reselecting fonts an re-tuning font rendering options, at 
least those used in body text sizes. Furthermore, you have to 
configuring rendering for KDE _and_ for Gnome and many applications 
don't use either of these for font selection and for those applications 
you have to configure their font selection individually. And beyond 
even that, some Java programs have their own configuration for enabling 
smoothed bitmap font rendering, and you may have to experiment with 
that, too.

It's very tedious to get fonts right, especially if you like to use 
small fonts in order to maximize display utilization (unless you don't 
much care about how fonts look at all).


But if you don't like subpixel hinting at its best, that's your 
prerogative, but I find it vastly superior.


> J-O.E


Randall Schulz
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