Re: Fonts (Firefox/Windows & Firefox/Linux)

Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Thanks Todd!

No problem.

Interesting that you have your dpi set to 100 in the gnome-settings.
I guess that matches with what you have on /etc/X11/Xresources. I
have mine set to 96 dpi.

I didn't change that. It's just what the F8 install defaulted to. I
don't recall where I read it, but I believe that instead of always
defaulting to 96dpi, the gnome font setup now uses some heuristic to
try and divine a proper dpi from the monitor size or other details.
For some folks, it's made their fonts way too big. I can tell that
mine are slightly larger than in F7, but not much, since the change
was just from 96 to 100 dpi.

You can try it some day but remember to enable freetype in Firefox.
Check the firefox configuration here (at the end):

http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting

I'm a rookie when it comes to fonts...but I guess that Firefox uses
its own font renderer UNLESS you make it use freetype by enabling it
in the about:config.

That I didn't know. I had experimented with building the freetype
package with the bytecode interpreter and subpixel rendering enabled
when F7 came out, but I didn't think they improved my fonts much. I
actually ended up using the older freetype package from FC6.

Thanks for the tip about Firefox. Someday when I'm screwing with my
fonts I hope I'll remember that. :)

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