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zokier

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Registered: 2008-10-20

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Fonts stretched

I installed and enabled -cleartype-packages, and my fonts are actually quite smooth and nice. No problem yet. But I noticed that the fonts looked bit odd otherwise, so I put windows and linux side-by-side. The result? In linux fonts are about 10% taller than in windows, while the same width. Dunno where this problem lies.

Example: ROXTerm in Arch, PuttyTray in Windows, 11pt DejaVu Sans Mono, 96dpi

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2789 … rchtw8.png

I'd assume that Windows is rendering here correctly.

Last edited by zokier (2008-10-20 01:32:56)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Fonts stretched

Hi zokier, welcome to the forums.

DejaVu Sans Mono 10pt on my machine is exactly the same as your Windows shot. I'm using roxterm on E17 at 96DPI:

[skottish@iasE ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

Yeah, something is strange with your resolution on Linux.

Wow, this is the first time I've seen the default E17 theme when something wasn't broken in a long time. It's the old one anyway, but the new one has to be pulled from subversion. I don't know if you've seen this, but it's a good place to find E17 stuff. I'm currently using the (soon to be modified) Simply White theme:

http://exchange.enlightenment.org/

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Fonts stretched

I'd assume that Windows is rendering here correctly.

Wrong - see font article.

Microsoft played a dirty trick on the world. Windows XP way of text rendering has zero taste and zero engineering culture. Their text looks sharp and eye catching but wrong.

zokier

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 2

Re: Fonts stretched

Hi zokier, welcome to the forums.

DejaVu Sans Mono 10pt on my machine is exactly the same as your Windows shot. I'm using roxterm on E17 at 96DPI:

[skottish@iasE ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

Yeah, something is strange with your resolution on Linux.

Wow, this is the first time I've seen the default E17 theme when something wasn't broken in a long time. It's the old one anyway, but the new one has to be pulled from subversion. I don't know if you've seen this, but it's a good place to find E17 stuff. I'm currently using the (soon to be modified) Simply White theme:

http://exchange.enlightenment.org/

[zokier@varch ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
[zokier@varch ~]$

Yes, I checked it, it is 10pt after all. Must been typo or something.

about e17: just installed this system, nothing nonessential yet configured. Haven't even yet decided if I shall stay with e17 or use something else. Tiling WM's seem intriguing too.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Fonts stretched

about e17: just installed this system, nothing nonessential yet configured. Haven't even yet decided if I shall stay with e17 or use something else. Tiling WM's seem intriguing too.

E17 has a tiling module. You can switch back and forth in the same session. I really don't know how good it is though; using tiling WMs doesn't make much sense to me at the moment.

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-21 04:37:33)