On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:42:08AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> To me, the text in Gedit is fuzzy and hurts my eyes. In addition, the
> white text is less white in Gedit than in Nedit, despite the white being
> defined in the Gedit style as "#ffffff". Experimenting with larger font
> sizes suggests that this is due to anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing is also
> causing the fuzziness. If you load that image in the Gimp and zoom to
> 200%, the problem is obvious, Nedit has sharp font outlines and Gedit's
> are fuzzy.
> 
> I know its possible to turn off anti-aliasing system wide, but I don't
> think that is a solution.
> 
> This leads to the question, is there any such thing as a truetype font
> for which the TTF font renderer will not try to anti-alias the text?

This looks interesting
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/977-tired-of-antialiased-fonts-in-gnome-2-0-x/

don't know if it works. But maybe you just wrap gedit in a bash
script.

This thread
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2004-November/001048.html
also looks promising.

Cheers,
John


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