According to http://www.spodesabode.com/discussio...u-look-better/ that technique is a patented Apple one...
According to http://www.spodesabode.com/discussio...u-look-better/ that technique is a patented Apple one...
I just used the sudo command sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/ that was posted earlier in 8.10 and it works rather nicely.
I just usedin Intrepid 8.10 but don't like the results. I'd like to undo this action and restore the default way fonts are rendered. I've quoted an earlier poster's solution to do so but don't believe it's the correct/best method to do this. Isn't all that is needed to unlink the files? I triedCode:sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/but I am returned the message that it is a directory. This is true whether or not I include the trailing directory slash.Code:sudo unlink /etc/fonts/conf.d
Any ideas?
Try this:
Code:sudo ln -sf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-autohint.conf
This is in response to kamiokande who said:
I read (I can't recall where, unfortunately) that this happens on systems w/o the Tahoma font installed.Thanks for the tip. It works really well on my desktop and most applications. However, I noticed that the fonts on some areas of the Ubuntu forums are now warped! Has anyone had this happen before?
The HTML / CSS on the Ubuntu forums site calls for Tahoma bold in some spots. The blurriness is a result of the system trying to mimick Tahoma bold and not doing too great a job.
Install Tahoma and the problem goes away, i.e., text will display as intended.
I can't believe we're still getting posts on a thread that started nearly eight years ago! What's so hard about smoothing fonts - MS-Windows have had ClearType for years and even Linux distros are usually pretty clean on fonts these days. This issue is so last century!
Just curious is this tip still valid on 12.04?
What I'm dealin' with:
HP Pavilion G6-1D60US, dual booted: Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, & Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, 640 gig HDD, 4 gig RAM
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