Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
- Subject: Xft Fonts appear to look worse with X11 1
- From: Matthias Neubauer <email@hidden>
- Date: 14 Nov 2003 21:01:13 +0100
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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