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

  1. #111
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    my fonts look kinda blurry and fuzzy around the edges, but other than that, it looks pretty good, but....i wish it was a little bit more clear

    also, where is the subpixel settings in kubuntu dapper?

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

    omg! sooo smoooth!

    in firefox everything is so smooth it looks ... bigger! i had to reduce my font size in FF to make it look nice
    i love it, but its so nice it almost burns the eyes

  3. #113
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Wow, this is really neat. It makes quite a difference. Thanks.

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

    After a lot of struggling I think I managed to get my fonts almost perfect now.
    Last edited by dasnk; June 17th, 2006 at 04:20 PM.

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

    Seems to look better. Thanks

  6. #116
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Is the file "fonts.txt" from the first post good for setting Ubuntu 6.06 fonts?

    I can not download the file. When I click on it's name, instead of starting download manager, forum asks me about my user/pass (which both are entered and ok) and says something aboutmy privilegdes.
    Last edited by imaginos; October 4th, 2006 at 10:38 PM.

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

    Hi.
    Just open your prefered text editor, copy this code and save it as .fonts.conf in your $HOME directory (don't forget the first "dot" in .fonts.conf)
    Code:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    <fontconfig>
      <match target="font">
        <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
          <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
      </match>
    </fontconfig>
    Regards

    Luis C. Suárez
    Humillity is not a "Status"...
    It's a "Gift"!!!

  8. #118
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    LCD users may get even better results if you use the following code in your .fonts.conf file. This may work for CRT users as well, but I cannot confirm since I have only used this on my laptop.

    Code:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    
    <!-- the cathectic LCD tweaks, from linuxquestions.org,
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1361098#post1361098
    -->
    
    <fontconfig>
    
    <!-- Disable sub-pixel rendering. X detects it anyway, and if you set
    this as well, it just looks really horrible  -->
    <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
      <const>none</const>
     </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
      <bool>true</bool>
     </edit>
     </match>
     <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
      <const>hintfull</const>
     </edit>
     </match>
    
    <!-- The first part of the 'magic.' This makes the fonts start to look
    nice, but some of the shapes will be distorted, so hinting is needed
    still -->
     <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
      <bool>true</bool>
     </edit>
     </match>
    
    <!-- Autohinter is not turned on automatically. Only disable this if
    you have recompiled Freetype with the bytecode interpreter, which is
    run automatically. Although to be honest, Freetype are right, there
    isn't much difference between the two. Note that OpenOffice is built
    against the bytecode interpreter, so even if you have compiled it and
    override it with the autohinter, OOo will still use the bytecode
    interpreter -->
     <match target="pattern" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
      <bool>true</bool>
     </edit>
     </match>
    
    <!-- Helvetica is a non true type font, and will look bad. This
    replaces it with whatever is the default sans-serif font -->
     <match target="pattern" name="family" >
     <test name="family" qual="any" >
      <string>Helvetica</string>
     </test>
     <edit mode="assign" name="family" >
      <string>sans-serif</string>
     </edit>
     </match>
     <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
    </fontconfig>

    I found this hack here[michael-and-mary.net], who in turn found it from it's original creator here[linuxquestions.org].

  9. #119
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Hrm, maybe stupid question. Where is home?

    Nevermind.

  10. #120
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Drool.....
    There is an easy way, and a hard way to do things.
    If you're anything like me, you've tried to do things things the hard way,

    and broke something.......

    (\ /)
    (O.o)
    (> <)

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