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cdahmedeh

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 20

Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

Hello,

I noticed that the font in QT applications look very different. They seem to ignore the hinting set in the GNOME Appearance utility. Here is a screenshot to compare the the two. Notice how the fonts in the QT4 application look very green/red. Also, the fonts are more pixelated.

Link to screenshot (Warning : WSXGA+ Resolution Image) : http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5605/fontk.png

So how is font hinting tuned in QT applications. There is nothing realting to such thing in the fonts tab of qtconfig.

Thanks

killajoe

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From: Berlin Planet Earth

Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 168

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Re: Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

your fonts in qt are wonderfull! believe me look at mine:

http://kamprad.net/killajoe/img/qt4-qt3.png

left qtconfig right qt3config...

Last edited by killajoe (2009-03-14 21:38:18)

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bernarcher

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

your fonts in qt are wonderfull! believe me look at mine:

http://kamprad.net/killajoe/img/qt4-qt3.png

left qtconfig right qt3config...

You have by chance enabled subpixel rendering? There were several thread already about this rendering problem.

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killajoe

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From: Berlin Planet Earth

Registered: 2007-07-04

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Re: Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

yes! change from VRGB to RGB direction solve the font problem into qt(4) applications! thanks!

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Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node:
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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/09 … ng-on-x11/

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