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kamracik Apprentice
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renrutal Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Umm, the move from freetype 2.2 to 2.3 changed the looks a bit. The fonts are bolder now.
I didn't like it much(but it does look good), so I found a "fix": Change the font hinting to Full.
In KDE it can be found in Control Center > Look & Themes (I'm translating from Portuguese) > Fonts > |Check| Anti-aliasing > Hinting: Full |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Filter flags are gone now. Installing without bindist gives us bci and default filter. Updated guide to reflect this.
Please don't mess with fontconfig. Force fonts in your browser for Central European to something else. About this "inscription". Are you talking about "expanded!" thing? It is just the way this font looks.
Bartmanw wrote: |
Here it is:
Code: | These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.3.12 USE="X newspr -debug -directfb -doc -glitz -svg -xcb" 0 kB [1]
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12 USE="newspr -debug" 0 kB [1]
[ebuild R ] media-libs/freetype-2.3.1_p20070207 USE="filter_default zlib -bindist -demos -doc -filter_legacy -filter_light" 0 kB [1]
Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage overlays:
[1] /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects |
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Looks OK. Try recompiling everything that depends on cairo, libXft and freetype. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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nesl247 Veteran
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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boniek, please contact via irc. I want to get you setup on the xeffects wiki so you can post the guide there. Just like to keep all xeffects documentation in the same spot. |
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kamracik Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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thx boniek i didnt think about it simply changed font to Times New Roman and everything back to normal |
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Kate Monster Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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My fonts look great now. Thank you
Nice avatar btw. |
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peka l33t
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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I got lost
After some recent update to freetype (withdrawn use flags) or something else my fonts look bad again.
Which freetype version is recommended? _________________ p3k4
Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again...
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anli Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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peka wrote: | I got lost
After some recent update to freetype (withdrawn use flags) or something else my fonts look bad again.
Which freetype version is recommended? |
Not sure it is a reason. I was forced to mask last cairo 1.3.14 from official portage tree as xeffects SVN is not available for me during last days. |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Peka, this happened because you installed cairo from portage instead of overlay just as anli said. I have just updated cairo in overlay to 1.3.14. Sorry for delay. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors
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anli Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | I have just updated cairo in overlay to 1.3.14. Sorry for delay. |
I have this reply:
svn up
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/xeffects/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/xeffects/trunk': 500 Internal Server Error (http://svn.gentoo-xeffects.org)
Few messages ago you have written to be patient. I still am |
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boniek Guru
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peka l33t
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | Peka, this happened because you installed cairo from portage instead of overlay just as anli said. I have just updated cairo in overlay to 1.3.14. Sorry for delay. |
No harm done
Cheers Mate! _________________ p3k4
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anli Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! - updating just now. |
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roderick l33t
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Ok,
Anyone here have ghostscript/cups support with media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std installed?
I tried to rebuild my font cache (fc-cache) and this package causes fc-cache to hang and drive the CPU though the roof. I unmerged it and fc-cache worked fine.
The problem is it appears to be a dep of any of the ghostscript builds in portage.
If I leave it installed, I cannot run kdm as kdm_greet stalls (looks like it wants to rebuild the font cache at some point) and cpu goes to 100%.
Any ideas on why this particular font package is not liking fontconfig/freetype?
I had everything working fine until upgrade to new freetype/cairo/libxft, so I assume it's related...
Any help would be appreciated as this is driving me mad. _________________ If God were a pickle, I'd still say "no pickle on my burger".
http://roderick-greening.blogspot.com/ |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for reporting. I can reproduce this problem on my machine. It seems to be bug in cvs version of freetype (not related to newspr patches). I will inform upstream about it. As a workaround use ebuild of freetype-2.3.1 from official portage tree. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I just changed KEYWORDS in ebuilds for snapshots of freetype to reflect their unstable nature. Now normally you should install freetype-2.3.1 from official portage (it is pretty stable and shouldn't give you any unexpected problems), but if you feel adventurous you may try snapshots. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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boniek Guru
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nesl247 Veteran
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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boniek, contact me on irc so I can give you access to the wiki so we can put the documentation there. |
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boniek Guru
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na641 Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:58 am Post subject: |
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Not sure if this is just me as these things vary from system to system but when i set "Font Hinting" to either medium or full the fonts look horrible! Only slight hinting makes them look good. I also agree that the 'bold' font is way too bold. I hope this is fixed soon. |
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boniek Guru
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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na641 wrote: | Not sure if this is just me as these things vary from system to system but when i set "Font Hinting" to either medium or full the fonts look horrible! Only slight hinting makes them look good. I also agree that the 'bold' font is way too bold. I hope this is fixed soon. |
What kind of Desktop Environment you are using? What freetype, cairo, libXft versions? Please provide screen shots with full and slight hinting. _________________ [HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors |
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na641 Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | na641 wrote: | Not sure if this is just me as these things vary from system to system but when i set "Font Hinting" to either medium or full the fonts look horrible! Only slight hinting makes them look good. I also agree that the 'bold' font is way too bold. I hope this is fixed soon. |
What kind of Desktop Environment you are using? What freetype, cairo, libXft versions? Please provide screen shots with full and slight hinting. |
I am using Xfce 4.4, here's the relevant package info:
Code: | [ebuild R ] media-libs/freetype-2.3.1 USE="zlib -bindist -doc" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.3.14 USE="X glitz newspr svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb" 0 kB [2]
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12 USE="newspr -debug" 0 kB [2]
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With fullhint
With slighthint
Notice the bold window title font, which looks like utter crap with full hinting. Also, the console font looks much nicer with slight hint (especially the bold parts) |
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boniek Guru
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na641 Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:34 am Post subject: |
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boniek wrote: | Forgot one thing. What fonts are you using (font size and DPI as well please)? |
Sure thing. Dpi is 96x96. Console font is consolas, titlebar font is HandelGotD. Both font's are sized at 9pt. |
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boniek Guru
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