fuzzy fontness

[Sean Middleditch]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 11:06, rhllist at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> >  Redhat9 gave me very crisp, clear fonts.  Updating to Rawhide, I
> > noticed they got rather fuzzy - the AA isn't as good.  I'm running an
> > LCD, and I _do_ have sub-pixel smoothing on.  (Same setting as we/
> > RH9.)  Using the Vera fonts in GNOME.
> 
> You could try rebuilding the freetype package with the bytecode interpreter
> enabled; I've found it improves rendering noticeably.

Was this enabled in RH9?  Because it did get worse; if that didn't
change, then it's something else I need to fix.

Also, isn't using the bytecode interpreter illegal in the US without a
rather expensive license?

> 
> >  Thanks all!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
> 
> 
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