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mot.def

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Registered: 2011-07-03

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GTK font scaling with bitmap fonts

I wish to use GohuFont, a bitmap font, for my GTK windows which has embedded 11pt and 14pt sizes. These usually work fine but in cases where applications attempt to draw fonts larger than 14pt it uses some TTF font instead. Is it possible to change the font that GTK defaults to to something different, e.g. GohuFont at 14pt, bold?

The other solution I can think of would be to spoof larger fonts by just copying the file for the 14pt font and modifying its header to be read as 16pt or something; I've found programs to modify the characters themselves but not one that'll let me change what size the font is "read" as.

Last edited by mot.def (2015-05-06 18:19:25)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: GTK font scaling with bitmap fonts

Why don't you modify the app itself? Or do some enforcing using fontconfig rules.

It's quite weird, IMO, to be wanting to stick to bitmap fonts. Scaleable fonts look far better, especially with Infinality rendering.

mot.def

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 19

Re: GTK font scaling with bitmap fonts

Smoothed fonts make me strain my eyes at low resolution and I'd rather use an ugly, sharp bitmap font than waste screen real estate bumping up the scale of TTF fonts to something I can comfortably read. I've played with Infinality's settings but on a small ~110ppi screen I always feel like my eyes are slightly unfocused

brebs

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Re: GTK font scaling with bitmap fonts

Nah. I doubt you've played hard enough with the multitude of settings that Infinality provides. I have heard your argument before, and it's *always* by people who show extremely little evidence of what they've actually tried, so it always seems to be laziness of the tweaker rather than something lacking in Infinality.

E.g. just this one setting has a huge effect, with different values (it's a mirror-image, so has 3 values to tweak):

export INFINALITY_FT_FILTER_PARAMS="14 20 32 20 14"

If your eyes are giving you discomfort, then you really need to check with an optician, and/or get a better screen, purely for the sake of your health.