From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 17:49:58 EDT
> 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
>
Hi everyone,
As mentioned by Marcel you need AbiWord-2.0 to get beautiful
anti-aliased fonts (plus automatic font-detection, just plave
font on .fonts in or a system-wide location and AbiWord-2.0
will find it).
Personally I think the font rendering in AbiWord-2.0 superior to *every*
other Word Processor I've ever seen (and way better than MS Word 2000) on
my LDC laptop.
Cheers
Martin
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