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 had a long-running discussion with a friend who runs Gentoo over why Debian's font rendering looked different... I never believed him that it was quite as bad as he thought until I saw his machine. I returned home and investigated straight away why Debian's Anti-Aliased font rendering looks almost as if they're not Anti-Aliased at all! If you prefer the upstream rendering, do the following: apt-get source freetype Edit debian/rules: Comment out the two "patch" commands marked as "CVS updates" Comment out the 030-bytecode-interpreter patch Comment out the 060-freetype2-bitmap-style patch Comment out the 070-ft2demos-2.1.5-no-rpath patch If you wish, add a changelog entry appending "hinting1" (or somesuch) to the version. Now build your new freetype packages and install them. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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