On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:57 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
>
> >> On Σαβ 23 Οκτ 2004 14:08, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >
> >>>>BTW, FreeSans and FreeSerif are not listed high in the alias list,
> >>>>as they often have rendering bugs or such. The Bitstream Vera fonts
> >>>>may look a bit weird sometimes, but they include a lot of glyphs
> >>>>too, and their rendering is optimized for Freetype.
> >
> >>
> >> Are the rendering bugs the reason that KPersonalizer overrides the
> >> default font selection? Is this related to fontconfig or is it
> >> strictly a KDE issue?
>
> Free{Sans,Serif} were broken for some time (huge inter-line spacing),
> and at the moment, they don't have an active upstream (which is why they
> stayed broken for a while). Fortunately, I think this is going to
> change soon. Regardless, they are a high-quality set of fonts, and they
> include many glyphs that Vera doesn't have.
>
> Also, the Free{Sans,Serif} fonts look *far* better if you enable the
> freetype autohinter; you can do this via fontconfig. The latest
> fontconfig packages in unstable do this by default now, but if you have
> edited your fontconfig configuration, it has probably not been updated.
> Make sure that the following stanza is in /etc/fonts/local.conf or
> ~/.fonts.conf:
>
> <match target="font">
> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
> <bool>true</bool>
> </edit>
> </match>
>
> - Josh Triplett
Unfortunately, autohinting makes most fonts very ugly (at least
IMO).
See bug #277883.
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