Re: Horrid fonts in Feisty

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:39:50PM +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
ke, 2007-05-02 kello 18:23 +0300, Marius Gedminas kirjoitti:
Here's a screenshot:
http://mg.pov.lt/xcompmgr-shadows.png

vim and xterm use 10pt Andale Mono. The menu bar on top uses 10pt
Verdana.

The fonts on the screenshot look generally nice, but I see some problems
here and there, like on the name of the network icon "video.b4...", the
"x" of the word "Syntax" on the Vim menu bar, the "k" to the left of the
panel klock and the x letters on the bottom panel. First I tought these
problems might arise from image compression, but the I noticed that the
image format is png, which isn't compressed. Do you see these on your
desktop?

Probably. These imperfections are small enough not to be jarring, and I
don't notice them.

What is irritating, is the synthetic emboldening that is enabled in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf. gvim tries to use a bold version of Andale Mono
(which doesn't exist) for syntax highlighting and gets the synthetic
version, which is horrid.

Marius Gedminas
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