On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 04:57 +0100, Zé wrote: > In mandriva sincepatent expiration in freetype, fonts display wasnt > smoth anymore and appeared ugly fonts, this used to exist just in > plf..
Note that whether fonts are "ugly" is very subjective, and also varies depending on one's eyes. For example, people who wear glasses will often prefer their text *not* to be antialiased, especially when the screen resolution is under 150 dpi and the viewing distance is under 18 inches / 0.5 metres) or so. > But since theres no patents issues pending, why not old rendering > algorithms by default (disable bytecode interpreter), that way fonts > will have a better rendering and look. For some fonts and for many (most?) people, this will look worse. > > This is most true for guys that are used to use small fonts, for > example im used to use Sans size 8 I can't even see size 8 on my laptop without a magnifying glass. Not because of my vision, but because 8pt text gives letterforms that for lower case x-height is typically 1.4mm -and 8px gives me 0.7mm high letters. You can turn off the bytecode interpreter, e.g. using gnome in preferences/appearance under fonts/details, or in fonts.conf, but you can't turn it back on if it was disabled at compilation time. You can also turn off antialiasing and sub-pixel positioning. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/