subpixel LCD fonts smoothing

[David Hláčik]

Well i have same font sizes, same resolution, same DPI, LCD subpixel hinting
full, still weird not nice

D.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:22:07 pm David Hláčik wrote:
> > So far, i have found on forums there is no difference. So after
> installing
> > that freetype-freeword font smoothing on Fedora 9 will be same as on
> Ubuntu?
>
> Well, it's not that straight forward.  To simplify the matter, there are
> two
> things:  rendering engine (and how it is configured, e.g subpixel hinting
> etc) and the other is the typeface itself :)  So if you want to compare a
> particular version of Ubuntu with a particular version of Fedora you need
> to
> check those 2 things, at least.
>
> Regarding the freetype world package...Once you install it you need to
> enable
> subpixel hinting in your Desktop Environment (KDE or GNOME or whatever).
> In
> KDE you need to go to Control Center/Fonts and then enable "use
> anti-aliasing" and once there click "Configure" to enable subpixel hinting.
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
> p.d Also you need to check if the dpi for your monitor is the same on both
> distros...Google is your friend.
>
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