Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-07 14:50:31

Good afternoon,

After having copied the new age Windows Fonts from my notebook (Windows XP, Office 2007) to my Arch machine (Calibri, Calisto, Candara), and having installed them properly they look rather messy. Is there any way of setting them up, so they are displayed equally clear-cut as the DejaVu-Fonts, which act as my standard fonts family?

Thanks in advance for every suggestion

cg

beejayzed · 2007-03-08 04:40:19

I like their display with:
antialiasing
rgb subpixel hinting
slight hinting (high doesn't render them well)

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-08 06:11:51

beejayzed wrote:

I like their display with:
antialiasing
rgb subpixel hinting
slight hinting (high doesn't render them well)

Thanks for your answer, but which settings are meant by antialiasing and slight hinting? I have enabled full rgb subpixel hinting - which is perfect for ttf-dejavu, but the other settings must be anywhere I do not find them at once (maybe text config?).

beejayzed · 2007-03-08 06:18:25

chaosgeisterchen wrote:

beejayzed wrote:
I like their display with:
antialiasing
rgb subpixel hinting
slight hinting (high doesn't render them well)
Thanks for your answer, but which settings are meant by antialiasing and slight hinting? I have enabled full rgb subpixel hinting - which is perfect for ttf-dejavu, but the other settings must be anywhere I do not find them at once (maybe text config?).

Here is my ~/.fonts.conf (I also have this in my /etc/fonts/local.conf), configured with/by kcontrol.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Stalwart · 2007-03-08 19:22:11

Windows fonts on linux won't look 1:1 like on windows because of differences in rendering. Same with MacOSX fonts, btw

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-03-08 19:29:09

beejayzed wrote:

chaosgeisterchen wrote:
beejayzed wrote:
I like their display with:
antialiasing
rgb subpixel hinting
slight hinting (high doesn't render them well)
Thanks for your answer, but which settings are meant by antialiasing and slight hinting? I have enabled full rgb subpixel hinting - which is perfect for ttf-dejavu, but the other settings must be anywhere I do not find them at once (maybe text config?).
Here is my ~/.fonts.conf (I also have this in my /etc/fonts/local.conf), configured with/by kcontrol.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Sorry to say, but your hints only decreased the quality of the fonts.

@Stalwart: That's what I feared. Are there any equal substitutes for Candara/Lucida Grande?

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#1 2007-03-07 14:50:31

Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

#2 2007-03-08 04:40:19

Re: Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

#3 2007-03-08 06:11:51

Re: Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

#4 2007-03-08 06:18:25

Re: Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

#5 2007-03-08 19:22:11

Re: Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

#6 2007-03-08 19:29:09

Re: Smooth and clear windows fonts under KDE

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