On Tuesday 17 June 2003 7:44 am, jgamo@cantv.net wrote:
I'm using SUSE 8.2, I installed my true type fonts from windows, turn on the anti aliasing, but still I feel like the fonts should be better... I'm not sure if I doning something wrong, I'm kind of new to Linux, or if I need to do something special because I'm a laptop user, but you people tell me something, your fonts are as good as the one in windows?, or I'm asking too much?
Mine are better. ;-) I very occasionally run Win98 and I've not bothered with font-smoothing in Windows.
If yours are good enough, how did you get it to work. So far my tru types looks like blur on the edge, effect that make me have a headache after a couple of minutes reading emails or something. Can I do something to improve my fonts?
Could be something to do with the anti-aliasing settings. If you're using KDE, go to the KDE control centre->Appearance & Themes->Fonts. Change the settings for sub-pixel hinting. Could be your LCD has it's pixel colours in different order. My LCD panel monitor works well with RGB. Yours may use BGR. YMMV. You could also try installing a newer freetype, which has several subtle improvements over the one supplied with 8.2. RPMs for 2.1.4 available ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586
Other problem is, there are some program that seems not to use any of my selected fonts. I'm using yahoo messenegr, I know taht is an old version and maybe that's the problem, but that one and openoffice have a very poor fonts. I think I found the way of changing the font on openoffice, I have to try tonight,
In Options->View, I found I had to set screen antialiasing to on, from 1 pixel and increase the scale to 110% before it would work. OpenOffice.org 1.0.x also uses an old version of Freetype, so the fonts are still not up to the standard of KDE. The 1.1beta2 available from OpenOffice.org is much better.
but there's anything I can do with the yahoo to take the fonts of the system?
I believe it uses GTK 1.2. There is a way to use antialiased fonts with GTK1.2 programs, but it's very hacky and I've not bothered. Will one of the KDE messengers work with Yahoo? Regards, Jason