On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:30, Elias Probst wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:51:51 Nistor Andrei wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mick wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Just updated my laptop and noticed that freetype-2.3.3 was installed.
> > > Restarted xorg and the font size and legibility of X apps changed for
> > > the worse.  The fonts are now considerably smaller, anti-aliasing makes
> > > them look really blurred, fixed-width font in Kmail is shown grey(!),
> > > etc.
>
> I have this problem too.
> After doing a
> rm -rf /etc/font* /home/*/.font* && emerge freetype && X restart
> font rendering was a little bit better, but there are still two issues (see
> also attached screenshots):
> - The bullets of the password text input field in KDE are pixelized
> - Konsole fonts have unconsistent fontkerning
>
> See also this URLs for troubleshooting regarding freetype-2.3.3:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-558045.html
> http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Font_Rendering

Thank you very much!  The suggestions in the links and remerging fontconfig 
and freetype fixed it.  Phew!  I thought that I might have to get used to the 
eye-strain.  o_o

Unless the string you suggested above is wrong you may want to also emerge 
fontconfig to see if it makes any difference?

Thanks again.  :)
-- 
Regards,
Mick