discuss: Re: Interested in font improvement mini-howto?
Subject:
Re: Fwd: Interested in font improvement mini-howto?
From:
Rahul Sundaram ####@####.####
Date:
16 Nov 2004 19:35:30 -0000
Message-Id: <20041116193501.41491.qmail@web8504.mail.in.yahoo.com>
--- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ####@####.#### wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Noel Llopis ####@####.####
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:54:01 -0800
> Subject: Interested in font improvement mini-howto?
> To: ####@####.####
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I just wrote a mini-howto on improving fonts on
> Mandrake (but the general
> idea works on any KDE distro).
> http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html
>
> Is that something you'd be interested in adding to
> the LDP? Let me know and
> I'll be happy to modify it to fit your guidelines
> and move it there.
>
I believe document suggestions are more appropriately
presented in this discussion list rather than the
feedback list. Thanks for forwarding it.
In general any docs on font improvement would be
welcome. However there are already docs related to
this in tldp.org. How about integrating your tips and
tricks with fonts deuglification howto.
Feedback
--------
"Turn off font antialiasing"
considering renaming this section "Turning off font
antialiasing". This is a personal subjective
preference and your heading kind of makes it look like
a mandatory step. avoid using personal references like
this
"Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand antialiasing in
my fonts"
There seems to be technical errors on your document
I believe it is possible to enable type hinting
without recompiling freetype. check this out
on getting good fonts section:
The quality of fonts in MS is generally considered
equivalent to Bitstream vera fonts which already is
shopped by many distros. The only disadvantages with
them is internationalisation. Morever the screen
quality is determined by the renderer which is
freetype in Linux and hence the same fonts look
different in Windows and Linux.
Morever you dont require a windows license to use
those MS fonts afaik. A reading of the license
indicates that it is free for use but not
redistribution. Hence the user is allowed to use the
fonts but distributions like Redhat cannot legally
redistribute them.
On "Set your screen dpi"
Mandrake uses the xfree86 configuration filename even
on xorg (presumably for compatibility with fhs). other
distributions use the upstream /etc/x11/xorg.conf
filename. Make sure you add this information
regards
Rahul Sundaram
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