Re: Fonts rendering on screen

From: Geoff (capsthorne@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 09:42:50 EDT

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    On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:16:17 +0200
    Marcel Pol <mpol@gmx.net> wrote:

    > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:12:21 +0200
    > Jost Ammon <jost@ammon-web.de> wrote:
    >
    > > Now that I've installed the AbiWordtar.gz and the
    > > software is running nicely on my system I would like to
    > > improve the rendering of the fonts. The appearance is
    > > like on the Gtk-Gnome screenshots on
    > > http://www.abiword.org/screenshots/.
    >
    > For the abiword1 fonts you could recompile the freetype
    > packages you have, and then with the bytecode-interpreter
    > enabled. It improves the hinting of fonts afaik. The
    > autohinting in recent freetype packages should give
    > comparable hinting, but I never compared it, so I won't
    > dare to say so.
    >
    > > However I would like to have a rendering like on the
    > > AbiWord-2.0 GNOME Screenshot.
    > >
    > > My question is now if this has to do with libraries
    > > (then I'd like to know what I am likely to miss) or if
    > > it is a font installing topic, which leads me to the
    > > question how and where fonts can be installed.
    > >
    > > Another question is anti-aliasing. I may remember having
    > > seen this feature in the Win version, but don't find it
    > > in my Linux version (1.0-6).
    >
    > Abiword1 doesn't have anti-aliasing, so you need abiword2
    > for that. It depends on a newer version of Gtk+ (2.0/2.2),
    > which supports anti-aliasing, and it depends on
    > fontconfig/Xft, which is part of XFree86-4.3. It depends
    > on more packages (Gnome2), and you will need a recent
    > distro for that.

    Tastes vary enormously in this area. For what it is worth,
    I had some extremely helpful responses recently when I
    posted a question "Fuzzy fonts under 2.2.2" on the Gtk list.

    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2003-June/thread.html

    Geoff
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