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Thread: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

  1. #101
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Just tried it in Dapper Beta 2 and it still works and looks great! One thing to note however is that it only works with the Best Shapes and Best Contrast option, obviously it will not work with the Monochrome option but the Subpixel Smoothing option seems to make the fonts go back to their smooth but not quite smooth enough option. Still this is far from a problem as Subpixel Smoothing always introduced ugly colours around the edges of my fonts that were very noticable. I always use Best Shapes as I find best contrast looks good but tends to distort the spacing of fonts.

  2. #102
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    different strokes I guess

    made my fonts look like garbage IMO

    I like no sub pixel shading best

  3. #103
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Yes this worked very well zenwhen. Thanks

  4. #104
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    If you are using Dapper try my packages here:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=182164

  5. #105
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    Hardy Heron (Ubuntu Development)

    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Holy wow, I know this is an old thread... but I just installed this on Dapper and it is quite awesome. The Opera fonts are quite beautiful. Mucho thanks!

  6. #106
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    I followed the simple instructions but nothing happened....Did I do something wrong?When you mean home u mean e.x /home/user/ right?

  7. #107
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    Hardy Heron (Ubuntu Development)

    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Yeah, that's the right folder. Be sure to make it .font.conf, with the dot at the beginning. Missed that the first time I did it

  8. #108
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    digged ^^
    I love my ubuntu.

  9. #109
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Does this override the bytecode thing with microsoft's TTF fonts? After trying this, tahoma and arial looks like freetype2 with bytecode disabled (the default install). The X fonts look better but the TTFs looks like it reverted back with bytecode disabled.

  10. #110
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    With this hack arial & tahoma looks squished - which is what it originally looks like with bytecode disabled & subpixel hinting. For those with bytecode enabled: are you seeing the same squished letters after this hack? I know I am.

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