Cheers man my fonts are now up to windows standard, (sorry but true)
Cheers man my fonts are now up to windows standard, (sorry but true)
HACK THE PLANET!!! sorry
Thanks for this. My fonts look really clear and smooth now!!
Nice one
Not sure why but just dropping fonts.txt to home dir and renaming it to .fonts.conf didn't seem to work, but doing it via command line (like above) worked perfectly. This is simply abso-freakin'-lutely-awesome!!!Originally Posted by fashions
Kudos to zenwhen - this neat fonts rendering is yet another factor for other distros to blush with jealousy - and ******* with fear. Hey, I can see ******* cracking...
Why not submit it to ubuntu folks to make it a default reality with fonts?
does this work on hoary too ?Originally Posted by Dex
The easiest way to switch on autohinting in Hoary isOriginally Posted by vassalle
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
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When I do this I get:Originally Posted by desdinova
┤ Configuring fontconfig ├─────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ By default, only outline fonts are used by applications which support
│ fontconfig. Outline fonts are fonts which scale well to various sizes.
│ In contrast, bitmapped fonts are often lower quality. Enabling this
│ option will affect the systemwide default; this and many other
│ fontconfig options may be enabled or disabled on a per-user basis.
│
│ Enable bitmapped fonts by default?
│
│ <Yes> <No>
Can you confirm that I'm supposed to just choose "yes" here? I'm just being cautious, as it noted that bitmapped fonts are often of lower quality.
Second question: is this just another way of getting the same result as putting the font.txt file noted at the beginning of this thread in your home at font.conf. Or, is this something in addition to that trick?
Thanks,
Rory
1) Yes you can - it doesn't really aftect you use on the desktop - as bitmapped fonts these days tend to be only used for legacy purposes...Originally Posted by Rory
2) Not really - its an addon - fonts.conf allows for VERY fine tuning on font display
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Thanks for the great tip, zenwhenOriginally Posted by zenwhen
someone pls sticky this..
FYI, I pointed the maintainer of the ubuntuguide.org toward this thread, as I found the tip posted here so useful.
He immediately added it to the Unofficial Ubuntu Guide with a slight change. That's even better than putting a sticky on this thread. Hopefully more will will take advantage of this great tip.
http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrafonts
Thanks desdinova,Originally Posted by desdinova
I found this a much better way to turn on autohinting than the manual edit for each user, as the effect is system wide.
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