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On Thursday 09 October 2003 17:37, foser wrote: |
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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 |
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> > that are outside the "normal range", so I would like that we try to make |
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> > things 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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Well, actually the ttf fonts are the best looking on my system (yes and non-AA |
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in the sizes 8-17 as I don't like fuzzy fonts). I agree that bitmap fonts |
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give better results, but only if they are not scaled. What also goes wrong |
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sometimes is ps fonts. |
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> > For non-latin, I think we should look into making clear what needs to be |
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> > done for making it look good, which packages should be installed etc. Not |
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> > all 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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They have to, if say, the desktop-guide would give that information it would |
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save them (and me, as my girlfriend wants to be able to read and write |
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Chinese (simplified)) a lot of headaches. |
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> > We can at least identify the misrendered ones. (At least with -core, with |
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> > qt, and with gtk2/pango). Those should render approximately the same, |
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> > sometimes 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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And the same fonts are chosen for the same name. fontconfig plays it's own |
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little role, just as the core font protocol does. And pango and qt as |
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wrappers around the font system. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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