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boniek Guru
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nosebleed n00b
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | Screenshots? If your fonts don't look as good as in "after" screenshot then obviously you did something wrong . If they look exactly the same then use what YOU like best. I'm not saying my overlay will satisfy everyone - I did it because I liked the effect and tought some people might like it too. Patches from gentoo's bugzilla and mine are very likely to come from exactly the same source so I don't think this is the problem. |
http://nosebleed.info/etc/screens/spr-screen.jpg -- maybe it is just a matter or personal taste... I'm also using autohinting here, and your after screen looked exactly like the sub-pixel rendering with autohinting DISABLED. However, even when I enabled autohinting on the xeffects builds, the fonts didn't look as good as mine do (i.e. check out some of the fonts, and the e for Bitstream Vera Sans at 10pt 96dpi) |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Set everything like in point 5 of the guide and rm -rf ~/.fontconfig/
Maybe try to run firefox with: MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox (I don't think disabling pango will help, but it will not hurt to try )
Your fonts as provided in screenshot looks definetly different from my after screenshot and to me they look a lot worse ( e.g. check Autos link on the left - to me its almost not readable ). _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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nosebleed n00b
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | Set everything like in point 5 of the guide and rm -rf ~/.fontconfig/
Maybe try to run firefox with: MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox (I don't think disabling pango will help, but it will not hurt to try )
Your fonts as provided in screenshot looks definetly different from my after screenshot and to me they look a lot worse ( e.g. check Autos link on the left - to me its almost not readable ). |
Well, it's not just firefox, everything looks the same in every app. Also, my fonts get those annoying red marks around them in spr mode... which I can't stand. With the version I'm using they appear rarely, if at all...
And "Autos" probably looks like that because I don't have autohinting disabled for bold fonts, but it looks fine to ME. What do you think of the non-bolded fonts? Anyway, like I said, it's just a matter of taste, I guess.
EDIT: Here's a screenshot with autohinting disabled for bold fonts: http://nosebleed.info/etc/spr-screen2.png |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you should stick with what your eyes are telling you is the best. YMMV
Non-bold fonts have too much grey/blue/whatever fringing to my taste. It is strange that you actually had to disable autohinting to get identical bold fonts as I have and you mention red artifacts... none of this is present in my setup so if you followed steps exactly as they are written, there is not much I can do to help you. And if you like your current config then there is no need to help at all. Just enjoy it
As for latest news concerning ebuild starting from 26.11.2006 snapshot there is new use flag called demos. It installs testing programs from ft2demos when enabled. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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AaronPPC Guru
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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My fonts look great! Thanks boniek! _________________ --Aaron |
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nosebleed n00b
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | Yes, you should stick with what your eyes are telling you is the best. YMMV
Non-bold fonts have too much grey/blue/whatever fringing to my taste. It is strange that you actually had to disable autohinting to get identical bold fonts as I have and you mention red artifacts... none of this is present in my setup so if you followed steps exactly as they are written, there is not much I can do to help you. And if you like your current config then there is no need to help at all. Just enjoy it
As for latest news concerning ebuild starting from 26.11.2006 snapshot there is new use flag called demos. It installs testing programs from ft2demos when enabled. |
Thanks, I just noticed that when I updated the overlay, I'm going to try it your way to see if it works better for me. Thanks.
EDIT: FYI, cairo 1.2.6 is out if you intend on updated that ebuild in your overlay |
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boniek Guru
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yagami Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:59 am Post subject: |
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well , it is nice ( the newspr ) , but its very very slow rendering text ! |
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boniek Guru
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yagami Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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with subpixel font rendering , i can see the fonts being drawn ( in menu's and etc )
without it , they are instant and cant be seen being drawn.
i have an nvidia 6600 gt , with nvidia drivers |
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boniek Guru
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deno Guru
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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mxhost d3n # layman -a xeffects
* Overlay "xeffects" does not exist!
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nesl247 Veteran
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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deno wrote: | mxhost d3n # layman -a xeffects
* Overlay "xeffects" does not exist!
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Make sure you have layman -L.. Other than that, the only thing to fix it would be to change the contact attribute check to be off. |
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deno Guru
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, now it is working. |
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deno Guru
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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one more question. how to set smoothing mode to subpixel, hinting mode to medium or full and subpixel order to rgb?
this is my .font.conf file:
?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgb" >
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintmedium</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
does it look ok? |
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deno Guru
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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...eh, i have just noticed that it returned to defaults except 4. line. |
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deno Guru
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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i think that i have enabled newspr use flag but when i run
mxhost d3n # emerge -pv cairo
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.2.4 USE="X directfb png -doc -glitz -pdf -svg" 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
mxhost d3n # emerge -pv freetype
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2 USE="zlib -bindist -doc" 0 kB
dont't see that such flag exists. |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: |
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All packages (revelant to this topic) are ~arch, and freetype is M~arch. Unmask freetype in /etc/portage/package.unmask and, if you are using stable tree, set appropriate keywords for corresponding packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords (more details about how to use portage is found here). Also remember to add
Code: | source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf |
line at the end of your /etc/make.conf to make overlays added by layman visible to emerge.
deno wrote: | one more question. how to set smoothing mode to subpixel, hinting mode to medium or full and subpixel order to rgb? |
In Gnome it is in System/Preferences/Font. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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boniek Guru
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deno Guru
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Hm in KDE is no such option to set smoothing mode to subpixel, or at least I can't see it. BUT this is much much better. thanks! |
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Bloodsurfer Guru
Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Wolfstein, Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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deno wrote: | Hm in KDE is no such option to set smoothing mode to subpixel, or at least I can't see it. |
Yes there is, you have to look in your control center under "appearance" and "fonts" or something similar (I use german language and can't give you the exact translation, but it should be something like that). There you can enable it. _________________ SiberianSniper: my girlfriend's name ends with .c
Clete2: Uber geek! W00t! I'd rather have it end in .cpp... <insert name>.cpp
Dralnu: ...why not <name>.o? Then she's ready for linking...
SiberianSniper: or <name>.ko, so she's ready for insertion? |
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m42 n00b
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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In kde, go to the control center. Look under "Appearance & Themes>Fonts" Then click configure next to "Use anti-aliasing fonts". You can enable it from there.
And thanks boniek, these fonts really do look alot better! |
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deno Guru
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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m42 wrote: | In kde, go to the control center. Look under "Appearance & Themes>Fonts" Then click configure next to "Use anti-aliasing fonts". You can enable it from there.
And thanks boniek, these fonts really do look alot better! |
Anti aliasing fonts... Is that the same as seting smoothing mode to subpixel? If yes, thanks, I did it. |
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peka l33t
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thank You boniek! _________________ p3k4
Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again...
Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG - The Inner Light |
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