He was talking about truetype. The concern was about hinting, ie true type rendering.
--Pat Rolland Dudemaine wrote: > If so, wouldn't it be a good idea to make the default fonts true type > ? Then, the fonts would look good by default. And "basic" people would > not complain about this ugly font problem anymore... > Of course, this should go without deprecating other font types, but > that goes without saying ... > > Best regards, > Rolland Dudemaine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Freetype's byte-code hinter may not be turned on on your system, >> depending on what distribution you run. Without it enabled, your font >> rendering will look significantly worse than on Windows: with them, it >> should be entirely comparable. >> >> Also note that the XftConfig file as shipped by some vendors is badly >> broken, >> so you may not get the behavior you'd like either due to that. >> - Jim >> >> >> >>> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> From: Xpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:41:06 +1000 >>> To: Xpert mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: [Xpert]Appearance in X... >>> ----- >>> Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to >>> Windows? The KDE >>> fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they >>> are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type >>> fonts >>> (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have >>> installed a whole >>> bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. >>> >>> I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the >>> "Anti-Aliasing for Fonts" box in the KDE Control Centre, but they >>> are still >>> quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. >>> >>> I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our >>> network of >>> aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the >>> terrible >>> fonts that they will reject it out of hand. >>> >>> I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all >>> most of >>> our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and >>> Outlook is terrible. >>> >>> Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to >>> get them >>> a Windows-quality display? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Brad >>> Brisbane, Australia >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xpert mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Gettys >> Cambridge Research Laboratory >> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xpert mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
