Re: Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
Re: Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
- Subject: Re: Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
- From: Matthias Neubauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:24:31 +0100
About a month ago, I posted the following mail describing my problems
with XFT fonts using Panther.
No one else is seeing the same problem? The problem still persists
with my setup and I still have no clue what's going on here ... Kind
of frustrating.
-Matthias
Matthias Neubauer <email@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I just upgraded to Panther. When working under X11 I'm usually a big
> fan of Xft fonts---they make the appearance of my X windows much more
> bearable next to all the nice OS X windows.
>
> Strangely, the Xft fonts seem to look worse now compared to the font
> renderings I got with X11 beta 3. It looks like as if the distance of
> some letters/strokes is somehow distored now.
>
> Have a look at the following screenshots I just took:
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~neubauer/xft-xemacs/xterm-all.tiff
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~neubauer/xft-xemacs/xterm-1.tiff
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~neubauer/xft-xemacs/xterm-2.tiff
>
> They show one of my xterms started with "Monaco-10". For example,
> consider the "Ma" combination, or the small "m".
>
> With X11 beta 3, it all more looked like the rendering as you see it
> with e.g. the "Font Book" application:
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~neubauer/xft-xemacs/fontbook-all.tiff
> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~neubauer/xft-xemacs/fontbook-1.tiff
>
> Any explanations for this? Do I have to configure Xft manually in some
> ways?
>
> This is on a PowerBook G4 (15") btw. And I don't have any font
> configuartion file in place (besides the automatically installed
> default stuff).
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias
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Matthias Neubauer |
Universitdt Freiburg, Institut f|r Informatik | tel +49 761 203 8060
Georges-Kvhler-Allee 79, 79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany | fax +49 761 203 8052
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