Comparing Windows and Fedora Core Font Rendering

[Jonathan B. Horen]

Jonathan B. Horen wrote:

> [snip]
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> > Having done so, I made a series of screen captures under both Windows
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>> 2000 and Fedora Core 2 (fully updated), on my dual-booting Inspiron
>> 5000e laptop. Here are the results:
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>>   http://cradle.brokenglass.com/arial_test/
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>> When comparing, please disregard the headings that wound up being
>> anti-aliased on Win2K but not on FC2.
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>> As you can see, the results are not identical, and, I think, look
>> poorer on Fedora.
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> I think they both look terrible.  I'm running Firefox-1.0 on FC/3, 
> with my font setting for Proportional set to San-Serif 14pt, San-Serif 
> set to Arial, and "Always use my fonts" checked (selected) -- it looks 
> terrible; however, changing San-Serif to san-serif, Bitstream Vera 
> Sans, Luxi Sans, Nimbus Sans L, or Tahoma makes www.slashdot.org look 
> terrific!
>
Actually, Arial also looks great -- I upgraded to FC/3 the day it was 
released (actually, I bought a new hard drive and made a fresh 
installation); in any case, I'd upgrade and install the 
msttcorefonts-1.3-3 RPM package.