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    HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Drop this file in your home directory renamed to ".fonts.conf" and log out and in again. It turns on auto hinting and makes your fonts sexy smooth.


    Edit: Oops, typo.
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Can't you set your fonts with the desktop configuration utility? Fonts- Advanced...

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

    Yes, but auto hinting is not configurable with that utility. This is something you have to do manually until the gnome devs drop it into that tool.

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

    Is this a GNOME only thing, or for Ubuntu in general? I.e. will it work for KDE?

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

    I see no difference.

    Edit: But when I moved it to .fonts.conf I did. *_*
    Last edited by HungSquirrel; November 15th, 2004 at 08:49 PM.
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Quote Originally Posted by stodge
    Is this a GNOME only thing, or for Ubuntu in general? I.e. will it work for KDE?
    It will apply to KDE too. It won't apply to apps that use older toolkits, like nedit or xpdf.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by zenwhen
    Drop this file in your home directory renamed to "fonts.conf" and log out and in again. It turns on auto hinting and makes your fonts sexy smooth.
    This may not be necessary -- A quick look at my Hoary box shows auto hinting is already enabled by default globally (for all users) in /etc/fonts/local.conf.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by kidrich
    This may not be necessary -- A quick look at my Hoary box shows auto hinting is already enabled by default globally (for all users) in /etc/fonts/local.conf.
    It was not enabled on mine.
    Much better now anyway.
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    Re: HOWTO: Make your fonts smooth enough to drool over.

    Sorry about that typo.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by kidrich
    This may not be necessary -- A quick look at my Hoary box shows auto hinting is already enabled by default globally (for all users) in /etc/fonts/local.conf.
    yes, it's there, but not working. Thx zenwhen, is now!

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