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On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:46, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:31, foser wrote: |
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> > Here you already have a problem, the perception of font quality differs |
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> > per-person and language. Some people really dislike AA (requires |
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> > different fonts to be good), others use different types of displays, |
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> > etc. And not latin language users usually know that they need extra |
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> > packs to have decent support, don't expect anything non-latin to look |
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> > good by default atm. |
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> I think that everyone agrees that ragged fonts are ugly (not rendered as |
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> intended). This happens mainly without aa. Personally I use aa for fonts that |
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> are outside the "normal range", so I would like that we try to make things |
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> look ok with both. |
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If you don't use AA you shouldn't be using TTF fonts, it's a whole |
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different setup. In one way i agree with users that in essence good |
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bitmap fonts are better for the desktop, but good bitmap fonts cost $$$. |
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> For non-latin, I think we should look into making clear what needs to be done |
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> for making it look good, which packages should be installed etc. Not all |
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> people who would use those fonts know that. |
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I believe they do, otherwise they're stuck with incomplete charsets or |
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characters from different packs with different look. Anyway, this is all |
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part of a much bigger picture. |
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> > Again this is mostly a personal thing and it currently also depends on |
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> > how you install xfree (this is in flux). |
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> We can at least identify the misrendered ones. (At least with -core, with qt, |
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> and with gtk2/pango). Those should render approximately the same, sometimes |
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> they don't. That might be fixable. |
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One and the same font renders the same everywhere, only config settings |
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influence this (well except for OO maybe). |
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- foser |
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