Re: Font scaling...Jaggies...


Subject: Re: Font scaling...Jaggies...
From: Todd Daniel Woodward (tdwoodward@radiodigest.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 21:24:07 MDT


I've been doing some research on my own, looking into this issue. The short answer
is you're going to have to live with it for a while longer. It's not a bug.

The long answer is, everyone has to live with it. The X Server doesn't support
scaling very well in some cases (really depends on the app) and absolutely doesn't
support anti-aliasing. The good news is that this is being worked on. There's no
easy answer to the issue and oppinions differ on what kind of solution it will take.
(Or "solutions" as the case sometimes is with open source, community driven
software.)

> Subject: Re: Font scaling...Jaggies...
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:45:15 +0200
> From: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>
> Charles Stevenson wrote:
>
> > I am so used to it by now that I hardly notice... until the Thursday when I
> > bought my iBook and saw the nice smooth anti-aliased fonts of MacOS.. it's just
> > the nature of the beast and something that should be improved on with time...
>
> This font problem has been driving me nuts - I've got used to it with
> Netscape, but with Mozilla the problem has got *way* worse - to the
> point that the majority of the text on webpages is completely illegible.
>
> I can't seem to find out in Mozilla which fonts are to blame for this
> problem, however when I have some time I'll deinstall all fonts and put
> just truetype fonts on the system and see what that does.
>
> If I manually select a truetype font for webpages in Netscape, then
> browser pages are rendered like a dream - the fonts are easy to read,
> etc. However changing fonts like this does not affect the skin - which
> is still illegible.
>
> Regards,
> Graham



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