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apeiro

Daddy

From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

Posts: 771

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Re: mozilla: no freetype support?

Try tweaking your DPI.  I have this in my .xinitrc (well, it's actually my ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, but same thing).

xrdb -merge - << EOF
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
Xcursor.size: 16
Xcursor.theme: whiteglass
EOF

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: mozilla: no freetype support?

I'm using freetype 2.1.9 now, do my fonts suck?

http://conveyableflow.com/images/fontscreenie.png

no, they're pretty good -- they're a little fuzzy maybe, but they have good shapes. but let's see them in something other than gNOme.

IT'S NOT DPI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :evil:

xrdb -nocpp -merge - << EOF
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
EOF

aCoder

Member

From: Medina, OH

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 359

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Re: mozilla: no freetype support?

let's see them in something other than gNOme.

ummm... OK!

http://conveyableflow.com/images/screenerie.png

It's a different browser too, so the fonts are smaller, but I still don't think they suck. However, I suck at determining that, so rate my fonts please!

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slackhack

Member

Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: mozilla: no freetype support?

let's see them in something other than gNOme.

ummm... OK!

http://conveyableflow.com/images/screenerie.png

It's a different browser too, so the fonts are smaller, but I still don't think they suck. However, I suck at determining that, so rate my fonts please!

they're not bad for the "bad" fonts. the kerning is a little off (e.g., "Post" all scrunched together and "subject" all spread apart) and the couriers are not so great. you seem to have more antialiasing than i do, though it's a little fuzzy with the infamous aa "shadow." you can see they are much better in the gnome shot. i'd give them a 7.

s3pHiRoTh

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2004-08-19

Posts: 12

Re: mozilla: no freetype support?

Try tweaking your DPI.  I have this in my .xinitrc (well, it's actually my ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, but same thing).

xrdb -merge - << EOF
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6049&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium
Xcursor.size: 16
Xcursor.theme: whiteglass
EOF

This is not DPI at all, it's something else. I have the same problem (we've also been discussing this on another thread) and one thing i've assured is that it has nothing to do with DPI or fonts itself, but with the way fonts are rendered. I've also tried different versions of libfreetype and i couldn't solve it at all. This must be something else...