Petr Gajdos writes:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:05:09AM +0200, Petr Gajdos wrote:
You can try to use autohinter with hintslight generally for now by
Alternatively, you can also use CFF fonts. Their rendering improved a lot thanks to Adobe contribution to FreeType2.
Well, I've spent a good part of the weekend trying to ween myself off the bitmap fonts I was still using (Adobe Courier). I've been wanting to do this for some time now since I tend to use more UTF-8 code points these days and the fallback fonts don't quite match up with the glyphs for Adobe Courier. The rendering for the sans serif fonts was actually quite pleasant, but the monospace variant didn't look good at the size I was trying to use it (9pt, 10pt was better). Anonymous Pro was better, but still had problems at certain sizes. In the end I installed the namtrac:subpixel packages; namely those for Factory even though I'm on Tumbleweed. Although there's a Tumbleweed branch on that repository, the libraries there are for an earlier version of KDE/Qt. With those libraries and the Infinality configuration the rendering that looks great (the glyphs are still a bit heavy with the default settings, but that can be adjusted with the filter). Both the embedded bitmaps and the autohinted fonts look worse in comparison. Unfortunately when Tumbleweed rolls out KDE 4.13 I'll probably lose the Infinality rendering again and have to see if I can get used to the autohinter variant. The problem there is that the strokes either get to heavy or the font starts fading into grey, I'm not sure if there's anything one could change to get around this. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org