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Old 24-Dec-2008, 10:16
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Default Re: Ugly fonts

Here you have lossless screenshots of GTK (Firefox), KDE4 (Konqueror), openOffice.org, KDE3 (showFoto) and SWT/GTK (Vuze) running in my 11.1 system.
Note that I use a CRT monitor, so no subpixel hinting in these images.

openOffice.org seems to wrongly detect the DPIs of my screen, so fonts are bigger (in the screenshot font size is 10pt instead of 12pt to look more similar). Everything else looks fine and consistent.

Like DallasDrifter comments I use MS fonts:
Quote:
$ fc-match serif
times.ttf: "Times New Roman" "Normal"
$ fc-match sans-serif
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
$ fc-match mono
andalemo.ttf: "Andale Mono" "Normal"
BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL set to 18 (so MS Fonts don't use antialias and use embedded hinting info) and EMBEDDED_BITMAPS_LANGUAGES set to nothing (even if I don't know if this makes any difference).

I have qtcurve-(gtk|kde|kde4) installed, my DPIs set correctly (my monitor wongly specifies its size through EDID) and changed "Sans Serif" for "Arial" in KDE4 font properties because of https://bugzilla.novell.com/461181.
That's all, but note that I have neither "~/.fonts.conf" nor "~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4".


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