Alteration in Fonts looks after change of Graphic drivers from Nouveau to nVIDIA

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I recently changed my Graphic card drivers from Nouveau to nVIDIA in Suse 11.3 KDE.

One thing I have noticed that initially I had been using various Adobe Fonts in many applications prior to change of drivers. But after this change the looks of the same fonts became quite different, the length & breadth of “individual letters” changed quite a lot making them look not so beautiful as they were earlier. Am I missing something or is it a normal phenomenon.
But I am satisfied with the present looks. Posting this thread just out of curiosity.

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I recently changed my Graphic card drivers from Nouveau to nVIDIA in Suse 11.3 KDE.

One thing I have noticed that initially I had been using various Adobe Fonts in many applications prior to change of drivers. But after this change the looks of the same fonts became quite different, the length & breadth of “individual letters” changed quite a lot making them look not so beautiful as they were earlier. Am I missing something or is it a normal phenomenon.
But I am satisfied with the present looks. Posting this thread just out of curiosity.
So I use only nVIDIA video cards, always load their proprietary video driver and I have noticed the difference in look with and without this driver being loaded. I can only say that I judge the fonts that I use with the new driver and not the old one and I do not think this would be considered unusual. As a dual boot between openSUSE and Windows, I always borrow the fonts I use from Windows in openSUSE. Something I am not sure everyone is aware you can do. Just look in /windows/C/Windows/Fonts or where ever you mounted your Windows drive if you have one. I load the font I want as a System font and then select it as a user for all active fonts in KDE, the desktop I normally use.

Thank You,

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You could also take a look at the antialiasing settings in Settings>Appearance>Fonts.

Note that to use subpixel hinting effectively you have to install the hinting-enabled freetype2 package. I’m not sure if the one in the DVD is, there were some restriction issues IIRC.

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My 2c
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/11.3-fonts.png