Re: How do I get decent fonts on Linux?
From: Michel Catudal (_at_)
Date: 11/19/05
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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:38:01 -0500
Le Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:42:15 -0800, fonthater@yahoo.co.uk a écrit :
> How do I get decent fonts on Linux? Anti-aliased or not, true-type or
> not, sub-pixel-hinted or not, they only look good if they are big - and
> if I wanted big I would not be running at 1920 x 1200. Linux's
> medium-sized text is ugly, and the small text makes my eyes hurt if I
> read it for more than a few minutes.
>
> Graphics are OK in Linux, and I have no problems with fonts in Windows
> XP. I was hoping to give up XP for Linux, but bad fontage makes an OS
> un-usable. And - fonts aside - overall I am impressed with Suse. I can
> perhaps live with other differences or issues, such as having to
> install codecs - or even fonts - because of licencing issues. But I
> don't want to harm my eyes as a strain to read things.
>
> Through-out Linux I am using noticeably larger fonts than I would with
> Windows XP - and that means things take up a lot more of my
> screen-space, while not always looking as good or being as readable.
>
> In XP, I would happily write this in Times New Roman 10. In Linux, I
> am using Times New Roman 18. I can read / write this in TNR10 within
> Linux, but it is so ugly that I don't want to. Within words the spacing
> between letters does not look right, the letters themselves are too
> jagged. within a single word, some letters can look like they are in
> bold while others look like they are in regular. Within a single
> letter one part of the letter can look too light [or thin] while
> another looks too heavy [or thick].
>
> TNR18 is readable in Linux, but when I am [e.g.] editing or writing
> documents, I should be able to see more of my documents; I should be
> able to see more text in a smaller space; and I should be able to see
> large chunks of different documents at the same time. That is one of
> the reasons for buying a 24" screen, and the need for large fonts
> undermines that significantly.
>
> I also want to be able to type my personal correspondence without other
> people being able to read it from the other side of the room.
>
> Reading web-pages is another big issue. Pages with perfectly readable
> text [at default settings] in IE are a pain in both Firefox and
> Konqueror. And when I am researching something on the net, comparing
> the information from different sites, I like to be able to have several
> different pages visable at the same time. This is harder with large
> fonts than with smaller ones, unless I don't want to have much visable
> from any one page, which defeats the point of having several pages
> visable a the same time.
>
> Reading the Suse help documentation is also an issue. Obviously, the
> problem with the fonts gets in the way of resolving it. And an O/S
> should not need fixing as soon as its installed; if I wanted that, I
> would stick with Microsoft.
>
> The desktop too is affected. My Windows XP icons use Tahoma 7 as their
> font. Other items, such as the menu's, use Tahoma 8. In Linux, I can
> still make out the labels if my icons / menu's / etc. use Tahoma 8, but
> they are clearly not as readable as in Windows; and Tahoma 7 is just
> not an option. And bigger fonts for my desktop icons means fewer icons
> can fit on my desktop, especially if I want ordered groupings.
>
> I must admit that my friends generally find my settings too small when
> they use my XP setup for any length of time. This would perhaps tally
> with my optician saying that I have excellent 'reading eyesight' or
> short-range vision [I wear glasses for seeing into the distance].
> However, when I showed Suse to my friends - none of whom who use Linux
> themselves - they all agreed that the fontage is clearly inferior to
> XP's. One described them as 'blurry', while another complained that
> some letters look heavier than others. One said he didn't mind the
> inferior quality, but he did say it was noticible. Everybody else does
> mind.
>
> Out of curiosity, I dropped to the shell and started typing things in.
> I din not know what I was doing, but I was not trying to do anything,
> other than see how the font looked. And it looked OK - but is that
> because I am not expecting much from white text on black background?
>
> I am running Suse 10, the monitor is a 24" TFT, and the graphics card
> is a GeForce 5200. The resolution is a native 1920 x 1200.
Go in YOU and install the microsoft fonts.
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