[gentoo-user] AA Fonts

[gentoo-user] AA Fonts

[Jim]

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I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg.  Some
fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk.

Here is a page showing what is going on:
http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html

Courier looks like garbage until about 16px.

Courier New looks better, though it is faint and not well aliased/hinted.

Bitstream Vera Mono looks nice, along with all the other Bitstream fonts.

My problem is that there are a lot of web sites (coding) that have
"code" sections that use Courier as the font, for example the Gentoo
Forum here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1398168

I also get a lot of MS Word and MS Excel documents from work that all
use MS Fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.

Is there anything I can do to fix up these fonts?  I have the following
TTF fonts installed:

/usr/share/fonts/TTF/
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/
/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/

Thanks,

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] AA Fonts

[Thomas Kear]

I see the issue.  Generally I allow kde to control font antialiasing,
I assume gtk-engines-qt passes the settings through to firefox and
other gtk apps.

Preview here: http://qupada.orcon.net.nz/ff.png

Interestingly, konqueror produces output similar to firefox on your
pc: http://qupada.orcon.net.nz/konq.png

I installed just about everything in media-fonts, and have a large
fonts section in xorg.conf to match:

        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/jmk"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-fix"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/monafont"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/twmoefonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/util"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/zh-kcfonts"

I have no idea what would be causing the problem, but do check your
window manager's font antialiasing settings.

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