Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

From: Jaap Haitsma (jaap_at_haitsma.org)
Date: 03/27/04

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    s. keeling wrote:
    > Incoming from Jaap Haitsma:
    >
    >>s. keeling wrote:
    >>
    >>>Incoming from Jaap Haitsma:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>Jaap Haitsma wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to work. See for
    >>>>>example the font in the attachment.
    >>>>>I already browsed quite a bit on the web but didn't find the solution.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>BTW My system is a fresh install of Debian unstable using the Debian
    >>>>>installer and then selecting Desktop for my installation.
    >>>>
    >>>>Forgot the attachment
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>Looks fine to me, but I'm using fluxbox.
    >>>
    >>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
    >>>
    >>
    >>?????? Is there something wrong with my question.
    >
    >
    > Well, yeah. Like I say, it looks fine to me. What are you seeing
    > that makes you think it isn't alright? I'm not a graphic designer,
    > nor am I much into the esthetics/esoterics of graphical display. I can
    > read it, and it looks better than how Mozilla displays Slashdot text.
    > So what do you want?
    >
    I want it to look really nice. Until last week I was a fedora user and
    always loved the way it renders fonts, but the facts that it's not
    completely community driven and the availability of far less packages
    then Debian started and to bother me. Now I'm a very happy Debian user
    except for the font rendering. To demonstrate the problem better I
    attached three files:
    1. debian-lt.png shows a webpage in debian
    2. fedora-lt.png shows the same webpage in fedora (way better font
    rendering)
    3. fedora-slashdot.png shows slashdot on fedora. As you can see the font
    rendering even on that site really rocks.

    Do you see the difference now??

    It should be possible to get it like this in Debian as well.
    My only problem is how?
    Changing the font rendering in gnome-font-properties does not help.

    Jaap

    BTW I added the luxi ttfs to my debian box to get the same fonts as fedora. 

    




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