[opensuse] Font display irregularity in openSUSE 11.1
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. Fonts in Ubuntu 9.04: [1] (same webpage in both images) Fonts in openSUSE : [2] Both above images are from the GNOME desktop, which I use as the default for both Linux versions. The font/ display settings ([3] & [4]) are also same for both Linux installs. Hardware details are as follows (nVidia Driver is same for both the installs): - Monitor: LG L177WSB @ native res of 1440 X 900 - Gfx Card: nVidia GeForce 8500GT 512 MB - Driver: nVidia 185.18.31 Any suggestions how I can improve display in openSUSE 11.1 ? Thanks, Jay PS: To render comparability between the images, I suggest viewing them at the same zoom; View > Normal or select 'Normal' from the main toolbar in 'Eye of GNOME', that should give the default zoom of 100%. [1] http://www.imagebam.com/image/0a639947066361 [2] http://www.imagebam.com/image/8de25d47066362 [3] http://www.imagebam.com/image/e9378c47067542 [4] http://www.imagebam.com/image/1dbaa547067543 -- Linux User 483705 | openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686) w/ Windows XP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 29 August 2009 14:06:21 Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
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.
IMHO this is an extremely useful piece of information. I didn't had the time to run in parallel several distros, but my KDE4.2 desktop looks sharper now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jan Ritzerfeld<suse@mailinglists.jan.ritzerfeld.net> wrote:
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 <alt.os.linux.suse> Usenet/Googlegroups (http://fixunix.com/suse/525031-install-additional-tt-open-fonts-opensuse-11-...), and tried copying over the TT fonts from Windows XP to /usr/share/fonts/true_type & then rebuilding the font cache, but as that did not help, I was using the 'Monochrome' option till now - there is less font distortion with monochrome option. Thanks, Jay -- Linux User 483705 | openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686) w/ Windows XP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Samstag, 29. August 2009 schrieb Jay Mistry:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jan
Ritzerfeld<suse@mailinglists.jan.ritzerfeld.net> wrote: [...]
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, [...]
IIRC, the font mess startet with SuSE Linux 8.2 in 2003: the bytecode interpreter was disabled because of Apple's patents. Since then, you have to fiddle about with freetype in order to get good looking fonts.
Thanks,
You're welcome! Gruß Jan -- Habit is stronger than reason. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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