TrueType fonts look bitmapped

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jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Tue May 28, 2002 9:07 pm

Hello,
I just installed gentoo. I left truetype enabled in the USE variable.
After setting up X with exactly the same configuration as my LFS system i was using before, I started X with KDE. But all TrueType fonts look crappy.
See: http://home.t-online.de/home/5200712465 ... pshot1.png
On my LFS system it looks so:
http://home.t-online.de/home/5200712465 ... pshot2.png

As you see much better.
What could be the problem?

Jens

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue May 28, 2002 10:13 pm

You have 2 choices:

1. Enable antialias in KDE and remove the truetype fonts from your XF86Config file (optional - other programs may not be able to use these fonts) or your font server (only list the TT font directory in XftConfig)

2. Not using antialias - remove the TT font directory from the XftConfig file (you must have at least one font directory listed in this file - use a fake one with one font or something)

Hope it helps.

Cr0t · Post by **Cr0t** » Tue May 28, 2002 11:29 pm

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Load        "type1"
Load        "freetype"

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"

do u have this?

Post by **Nitro** » Wed May 29, 2002 12:34 am

Try using XFS (X Font Server, not the filesystem

). That cleaned up my fonts.

jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Wed May 29, 2002 11:10 am

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Load        "type1" 
Load        "freetype" 

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" 
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"

Yes i have this...

How do I use xfs (Load "xtt"? <- This one?). If so, I already tried. Didn't help.
Jens

jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Wed May 29, 2002 11:19 am

I also tried enabling anti-aliasing. It definitly looks better, but I think it's still crap because it's too smoothed.
See: http://home.t-online.de/home/5200712465 ... pshot3.png

Jens

jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Wed May 29, 2002 12:39 pm

I searched around a little and I found a webpage http://mbox.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~peak/ftdemo/index.cgi
I chose the Verdana Font and tried with disabling anti-alias and hinting and got the same results as I have at home.
When I just enabled hinting the Font looked fine. How can I enable it in Gentoo?

Jens

jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Wed May 29, 2002 1:18 pm

Seems as if I'm Talking to myself

I looked in the file: /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h
and saw that,
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
which is for needed to enable hinting, is ok.
But how can the fonts still look so crappy?
The tip with xfs also didn't solve the problem.
Now I'm a little frustrated.
However I wonder how this can happen. On my old LFS system everything was configured just like in my Gentoo installation. The Packages were also the same.
Fortunately, I can switch back to LFS. This wrong shown fonts give me a headache...

jlansing · Post by **jlansing** » Wed May 29, 2002 4:58 pm

Ok, last time. I found the error.
I re-emerged xfree but I disabled the xft patch in the ebuild script. Perhaps an administrator should review the patch. It doesn't improve quality, it makes it worse...

Jens

BackSeat · Post by **BackSeat** » Wed May 29, 2002 6:14 pm

Actually I have been having the exact same problem. I'll try rebuilding xfree with xft disabled and see if it fixes my problem too.

BS