Re: vera font curiosity
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 00:56, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> Last week I built GNOME 2.4 using garnome and was pleased to discover a change
> in the appearance of the Bitstream Vera font. It looked like screenshots I'd
> seen of Red Hat desktops. Just now, however, I installed the debs from the
> bxlug site posted recently and found that the Vera font reverted to its
> previous appearance.
>
> I've attached a small screenshot. At the top is the GNOME 2.2 (sid) and GNOME
> 2.4 (bxlug) appearance and at the bottom is the GNOME 2.4 (garnome). Note the
> difference in the 'a'. I opened the bottom window by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> my garnome build and using /usr/bin/gnome-font-properties from the bxlug
> packages. One of the libraries is responsible? Is there a configuration to
> enable the bottom appearance no matter which GNOME build I'm using?
>
> Ryan
I would estimate that the garnome Freetype library has the
byte-intepreter enabled; this provides improvements when rendering
non-AA fonts, but produces hinting artifacts (look at the lower-case "m"
for an example) when using AA fonts.
The Debian freetype has the byte-interpreter disabled, which produces
nicer glyphs in AA mode.
Of course, I could be wrong. I'd bet a pint of your favourite ale I'm
not, though.
Regards
Peter.
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Peter Whysall <peter@whysall.net>
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