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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:11:32
Message-Id: 201007032107.15154.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Saturday 03 July 2010 14:38:14 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > > Nikos, I just merged 10.60 and it works here. What are your local
3 > > font-related settings?
4 >
5 > <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
6 > <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
7 > <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
8 > <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
9 > <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
10 > <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
11
12 For comparison, here's mine. I seldom touch or do anything with my font
13 config:
14
15 # eselect fontconfig list
16 Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
17 [1] 10-autohint.conf *
18 [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
19 [3] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
20 [4] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf *
21 [5] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
22 [6] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
23 [7] 10-unhinted.conf
24 [8] 20-fix-globaladvance.conf *
25 [9] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
26 [10] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
27 [11] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
28 [12] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf
29 [13] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
30 [14] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
31 [15] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
32 [16] 40-nonlatin.conf *
33 [17] 45-latin.conf *
34 [18] 49-sansserif.conf *
35 [19] 50-user.conf *
36 [20] 51-local.conf *
37 [21] 57-dejavu-sans.conf *
38 [22] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
39 [23] 57-dejavu-serif.conf *
40 [24] 60-latin.conf *
41 [25] 60-liberation.conf *
42 [26] 65-fonts-persian.conf
43 [27] 65-khmer.conf
44 [28] 65-nonlatin.conf *
45 [29] 69-unifont.conf *
46 [30] 70-no-bitmaps.conf *
47 [31] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
48 [32] 80-delicious.conf *
49 [33] 90-synthetic.conf *
50
51
52 You have autohint set to false. What does that do?
53
54 >
55 > freetype:
56 >
57 > 2.3.12(2)(07:37:47 PM 05/11/2010)(X -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge -utils)
58
59 Same here apart from utils, I have that on. Doesn't seem relevant.
60
61 > In case it matters, I'm on AMD64. I also found this:
62 >
63 > http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/751/
64
65 Doesn't seem to apply. It only mentions opera's own decorations in menus etc,
66 not the actual content in the page. What does opera use as it's rendering
67 engine?
68
69
70 --
71 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>