On 2008/06/13 14:02 (GMT-0400) Putrycz, Erik apparently typed:
By the way, I think the "DejaVu" fonts render much better then the "freefont" fonts, the "DejaVu" font project is also a lot more active in further developing the fonts.
I agree about the déjà vu font, I was using the déjà vu condensed, it was looking great but then it did not work in java swing applications.
FWIW, all recent releases of Ubuntu, Mandriva & Fedora have the DejaVus and Veras as the first entries in their alias lists in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/##-latin.conf, except maybe in Fedora 9 the Liberations might be the first entries. I only have one Fedora 9 install, and I think I rearranged to put the Liberations first in order to do some testing and didn't save copies of the originals.
I fully understand that fonts are like colors and each user do have a preference, but the default is IMO far from the experience with "reasonable defaults" in other OSes - my preference being to vista with their new cleartype.
Do you have Arial, Verdana and Albany installed on yours? Because if you have none of those, and do have DejaVu installed (which happens by default) and locale en_US.UTF-8, then your Sans _is_ DejaVu Sans, same as most other popular distros. If your preference is for the ClearType look (like me), then I suggest you configure your SUSEs to use only autohinter and AA (via ~/.fonts.conf entries), then see how FreeSans compares to the others. By default, you're using the byte code interpreter (full hinting) instead of the autohinter, and the byte code interpreter will not make the best available fonts look anything like ClearType does. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foudation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org