@Anshul
Thanks a lot for this HOWTO
As soon as I saw it I wanted to post some questions and improvements I've made but I took too long to find and old post:
here in openSUSE Forums and the trick mentioned there, has really made a lot of difference to my Qt and Tcl/Tk apps (take a look at this 2 pictures:
Hintfull
and H
intnone
.
The trick was to edit
/usr/share/fonts-config/suse-hinting.conf.template change this:
Code:
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<edit name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
to say this:
Code:
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hintstyle">
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
<edit name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
and run
SuSEconfig after that.
As you can see, QCad is a QT aplication and aMSN is a Tcl/Tk app, and the difference is huge with and without. However I cannot see any improvements to FF3, OOo and GNOME apps. (Credit goes to
shishirverma) I must also say that I'm using SubpixelHinting from Community and I have a nVidia GC.
A have some questions:
Here in this howto you give the mandriva link to download the files, in the mandriva forum you stand to untar the "fonts.zip" file which contains the binaries located someplace here:
ftp://80.71.15.178/fedora/9/ but I dont find them ????
Could you tell me please which ones must I download ? (x86_64 here)
Is it ok to follow the mandriva forum link to install all the packages/binaries?
In the fedora forum they are saying that you need the pixman library but I don' see anything related here... ???
Thanks for your help and Kind Regards
Luis C.