On Monday, 2006-05-22 07:37, Keith Packard wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:50 +0300, Jukka Suomela wrote: > > I tried 2.2.1-2. The font quality is still poor. > > You have enabled hint style 'medium' which appears to give sub-optimal > results in my tests. Disabling that in your configuration should "fix" > the output. > > This may well be a change in how freetype interprets the hinting > settings.
Thank you very much, this indeed seems to fix the problem. With the following settings, the results seem to be identical to that of libfreetype6 2.1.10-3: <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintfull</const> </edit> </match> Now I am happy, but I am slightly concerned about everyone else. It seems that the medium hints are a default setting in at least two different places: - First, if there is no ~/.fonts.conf at all, it seems that libfreetype6 behaves as if "medium" hint style (or similar) was chosen. - Second, KDE automatically creates the ~/.fonts.conf file according to the choices in the KDE control center. It seems that the "Medium" hint style is the default choice. Switching to "Full" requires explicit user interaction (Control Center / Appearance & Themes / Fonts / Configure... / Hinting style). I would assume that changing the system-wide defaults would not be a serious problem, but what about the KDE defaults and all automatically-created ~/.fonts.conf files, especially on multi-user systems? Best regards, Jukka Suomela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
