Re: Antialiased fonts in Linux applications
[epilogue, 2004-07-28] i noticed the same thing happen to my setup, after upgrading to xorg. in my case acroread works. unfortunately, i don't run mathematica or maple. however, for linux-opera, try adding the following settings in $HOME/.linux-opera/opera6.ini: [User Prefs] under this section Enable Core X Fonts=0 Enable Xft Fonts=1 Trust Qt FontSwitching=0 Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it didn't seem to fix my problem. In fact, after adding those lines to the preferences file, opera won't start at all. Or that it, it starts, but never creates ny windows. I will later have to manually kill the pid. Thanks anyway. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Antialiased fonts in Linux applications
Font in Linux applications no longer render as they should. Both antialiasing and hinting is off. This applies to Acrobat Reader, Mathematica, Maple and Opera (ie. all my Linux applications) I have symlinks to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/* in /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts This used to work, but I don't know what has changed since then, since I did a lot of portupgrades in time between this was last known to work, and when it recently stopped working. Any help would be greatly appricated. -- Svein Halvor Here is a list of my ports: Hermes-1.3.2Fast pixel formats conversion library ImageMagick-5.5.7.15_1 Image processing tools Mesa-3.4.2_2A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL ORBit-0.5.17_2 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language ORBit2-2.10.3 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language Xaw3d-1.5 A 3-D Athena Widget set that looks like Motif aalib-1.4.r5_1 An ascii art library acpicatools-20021118.0 Some utilities for Intel ACPICA (Debugger, ASL Compiler and acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents arts-1.1.4_2,1 Audio system for the KDE integrated X11 desktop aspell-0.50.5_3 Spelling checker with better suggestion logic than ispell atk-1.6.1 A GNOME accessibility toolkit (ATK) autoconf-2.53_1 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf213-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms automake-1.5,1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator automake14-1.4.5_9 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (legacy version avifile-0.7.38_3,2 AVI player/converter with numerous codecs, including MPEG-4 bash-2.05b.007 The GNU Bourne Again Shell bbpager-0.3.1 A pager for the Blackbox window manager bison-1.75_2A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection boxtools-0.65.0 Style tools for the blackbox family of window managers bsd-airtools-0.3BSD Wireless Scanning Tools cdparanoia-3.9.8_7 A CDDA extraction tool (also known as ripper) cdrtools-2.0.3_1Cdrecord and several other programs to record CD-R[W] compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 A convenience package to install the compat3x libraries coreutils-5.0_1 The Free Software Foundation's core utilities ctorrent-1.3.2 BitTorrent Client written in C for FreeBSD and Linux cups-base-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, daemons cups-pstoraster-7.07_1 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS prin curl-7.11.0 Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S) cvsup-16.1h General network file distribution system optimized for CVS db4-4.0.14_1,1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4 db41-4.1.25_1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.1 dbh-1.0.18 Disk Based Hashtables dict-1.9.11 Dictionary Server Protocol (RFC2229) client djbfft-0.76 An extremely fast library for floating-point convolution docbook-sk-4.1.2_3 XML version of the DocBook DTD version controlled for Scrol docbook-xml-4.2_1 XML version of the DocBook DTD docbook-xsl-1.65.1 XSL DocBook stylesheets dri-4.3.0,1 OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for XFree86 dv2jpg-1.1_3Convert Type-2 DV codec-encoded AVI streams to mjpeg-encode dvts-1.0a_3 A imprementation of Digital Video Transport System emacs-21.3 GNU editing macros esound-0.2.34 A sound library for enlightenment package expat-1.95.7XML 1.0 parser written in C ezm3-1.1Easier, more portable Modula-3 distribution for building CV fam-2.6.9_4 A file alteration monitor ffmpeg-0.4.5_7 Hyper fast realtime audio/video encoder/converter, streamin fftw-2.1.5_2Fast C routines to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform findutils-4.1_2 The GNU find utilities flac-1.1.0_3Free lossless audio codec flashplayer-0.4.10_1 GPL standalone Flash (TM) player fontconfig-2.2.2,1 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows freebsd-games-5.1.1_4 FreeBSD-modified Standard BSD games freetype2-2.1.7_3 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine gaim-0.80 Multi-protocol instant messaging client gcc-3.3.4_20040616 GNU Compiler Collection 3.3 gd-2.0.15_1,1 A graphics library for fast creation of images gdbm-1.8.3_1The GNU database manager gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0_1 A graphic library for GTK+ gettext-0.13.1_1GNU gettext package ghostscript-gnu-7.07_5 GNU Postscript interpreter ghostview-1.5 An X11 front-end for ghostscript, the GNU postscript previe gimp-2.0.2,1A GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp-print-4.2.7GIMP Print Printer Driver gkrellm-2.2.1 A GTK based system monitor gle-3.0.3 A GL Tubing and Extrusion Library glib-1.2.10_10 Some useful routines of C programming (previous stable vers glib-2.4.2 Some useful routines of C programming
Re: Antialiased fonts in Linux applications
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:20:24 +0200 (CEST) Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Font in Linux applications no longer render as they should. Both antialiasing and hinting is off. This applies to Acrobat Reader, Mathematica, Maple and Opera (ie. all my Linux applications) I have symlinks to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/* in /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts This used to work, but I don't know what has changed since then, since I did a lot of portupgrades in time between this was last known to work, and when it recently stopped working. i noticed the same thing happen to my setup, after upgrading to xorg. in my case acroread works. unfortunately, i don't run mathematica or maple. however, for linux-opera, try adding the following settings in $HOME/.linux-opera/opera6.ini: [User Prefs] under this section Enable Core X Fonts=0 Enable Xft Fonts=1 Trust Qt FontSwitching=0 though i find that many pages in opera don't look quite as sharp as before, this should make your opera fonts look acceptable. from within opera, you can also tinker with alt+p fonts in order to better align the output to your tastes. hopefully someone will suggest a more general (ie. system-wide) fix for your issue. in the meantime, i would suggest taking a gander at your/var/log/Xorg.0.log for any error and warning messages. hth. cheers, epi Any help would be greatly appricated. -- Svein Halvor Here is a list of my ports: Hermes-1.3.2Fast pixel formats conversion library ImageMagick-5.5.7.15_1 Image processing tools Mesa-3.4.2_2A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL ORBit-0.5.17_2 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language ORBit2-2.10.3 High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language Xaw3d-1.5 A 3-D Athena Widget set that looks like Motif aalib-1.4.r5_1 An ascii art library acpicatools-20021118.0 Some utilities for Intel ACPICA (Debugger, ASL Compiler and acroread-5.08 View, distribute and print PDF documents arts-1.1.4_2,1 Audio system for the KDE integrated X11 desktop aspell-0.50.5_3 Spelling checker with better suggestion logic than ispell atk-1.6.1 A GNOME accessibility toolkit (ATK) autoconf-2.53_1 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf213-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms automake-1.5,1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator automake14-1.4.5_9 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (legacy version avifile-0.7.38_3,2 AVI player/converter with numerous codecs, including MPEG-4 bash-2.05b.007 The GNU Bourne Again Shell bbpager-0.3.1 A pager for the Blackbox window manager bison-1.75_2A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection boxtools-0.65.0 Style tools for the blackbox family of window managers bsd-airtools-0.3BSD Wireless Scanning Tools cdparanoia-3.9.8_7 A CDDA extraction tool (also known as ripper) cdrtools-2.0.3_1Cdrecord and several other programs to record CD-R[W] compat3x-i386-5.0.20020925 A convenience package to install the compat3x libraries coreutils-5.0_1 The Free Software Foundation's core utilities ctorrent-1.3.2 BitTorrent Client written in C for FreeBSD and Linux cups-base-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, daemons cups-pstoraster-7.07_1 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS prin curl-7.11.0 Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S) cvsup-16.1h General network file distribution system optimized for CVS db4-4.0.14_1,1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4 db41-4.1.25_1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.1 dbh-1.0.18 Disk Based Hashtables dict-1.9.11 Dictionary Server Protocol (RFC2229) client djbfft-0.76 An extremely fast library for floating-point convolution docbook-sk-4.1.2_3 XML version of the DocBook DTD version controlled for Scrol docbook-xml-4.2_1 XML version of the DocBook DTD docbook-xsl-1.65.1 XSL DocBook stylesheets dri-4.3.0,1 OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for XFree86 dv2jpg-1.1_3Convert Type-2 DV codec-encoded AVI streams to mjpeg-encode dvts-1.0a_3 A imprementation of Digital Video Transport System emacs-21.3 GNU editing macros esound-0.2.34 A sound library for enlightenment package expat-1.95.7XML 1.0 parser written in C ezm3-1.1Easier, more portable Modula-3 distribution for building CV fam-2.6.9_4 A file alteration monitor ffmpeg-0.4.5_7 Hyper fast realtime audio/video encoder/converter, streamin fftw-2.1.5_2Fast C routines to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform findutils-4.1_2 The GNU find utilities flac-1.1.0_3Free lossless audio codec flashplayer-0.4.10_1 GPL standalone Flash (TM) player
