On Tuesday 02 September 2014 20:13:41 Achim Gratz wrote:
With the update to freetype 2.5 the Infinality patches from namtrac:subpixel can no longer be installed. My understanding was that some functionality of the patches had been upstreamed into freetype 2.5, but at least out-of-the box the font rendering is really ugly. So is there any information on how to get a more usable (or preferrably) identical font rendering with the new library? I really don't want to go back to bitmapped fonts, especially as the ones I liked all have poor UTF-8 support.
openSUSE ships with subpixel rendering disabled, because that's patented technology. So to achieve the same result you just have to rebuild the freetype with subpixel enabled (it is a define in one of the headers and official RPM has proper patch, but not applied during the build). ... or if you're too lazy to build it yourself - you can grab my packages :) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7j7XkcAA4-MU21tR2cwS1FPT3c&usp=sharing And while you're at it - you can try my fontconfig config files, just put them to /etc/fonts/conf.d, but with 2 modifications: 1. edit 00-*.conf just moving some lines up and down according to what fonts you like most. 2. change DPI to your native in 99-*.conf and play with hintstyle according to your preferences, slight works best for me but medium is required for some fonts.
Regards, Achim.
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