On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jan
Ritzerfeld
Am Samstag, 29. August 2009 schrieb Jay Mistry:
Not sure if this is only on my system (though I have seen the same problem in other screenshots of openSUSE on the web as well); but the fonts display in openSUSE are irregular. This font 'bleed' is there only in openSUSE, as I also have Ubuntu 9.04 also installed on the same system, and the fonts are clear (without any sort of distortion) in Ubuntu. [...]
Subpixel hinting is disabled in the freetype2 package of openSUSE because of Microsoft's ClearType patent: http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting AFAIK Ubuntu enables subpixel hinting and the bytecode interpreter anyway.
HTH Jan
The instructions at the link you gave fixed the problem; I had been
looking for a fix since last year, having posted this problem on the