Re: Fonts quality in Desktop with Iceweasel
Hello Florian.
Disabling bitmaps and changing Xft.hinting to "1" and Hintstyle to
"hintmedium" is giving much more screen quality, the same than Redhat,
this was the issue. Now is Ok.
Many thanks for your help.
Josep
> > linux@debianet:~$ awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/{if (/^(Na|Va)/) print}' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> > Name: fontconfig/enable_bitmaps
> > Value: true
> > Name: fontconfig/hinting_type
> > Value: Native
> > Name: fontconfig/subpixel_rendering
> > Value: Automatic
>
> I would try to disable bitmap fonts. (The rest looks good to me.) You
> can run (as root)
>
> dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
>
> and choose "No" for "Enable bitmapped fonts by default?" (This is the
> last question that you will be asked.) Then you can restart X and check
> if this improves things. (Normally it does.)
>
> > linux@debianet:~$ xrdb -query | grep Xft
> > Xft.antialias: 1
> > Xft.dpi: 96.000000
> > Xft.hinting: 0
> > Xft.hintstyle: hintnone
> > Xft.rgba: none
> > krasher@debianet:~$
>
> You can try if you like font hinting by running (under X)
>
> echo -e "Xft.hinting: 1\nXft.hintstyle: hintfull" | xrdb -merge
>
> You can also try "hintslight" and "hintmedium" instead of "hintfull".
> You have to restart iceweasel after making a change to see the effect.
>
> Some people even prefer to turn off antialiasing. This is all somewhat
> subjective and also depends on which fonts and which display you use.
>
> Once you find your preferred settings you can make them permanent by
> putting them into ~/.Xresources or by using the GUI font setup tool of
> your desktop environment.
>
> > --- Florian Kulzer escribió:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 22:42:10 +0200, Josep M. wrote:
> > > > Hello to all.
> > > >
> > > > I have in the same machine centos 4.4 and debian etch, in centos,
> > > > when using firefox fonts are much better quality than debian, in
> > > > both I have added the same Microsoft fonts, Arial,
> > > > Tahoma,Verdana... ad all fonts are much better displayed in Centos
> > > > than Debian when using Iceweasel or Firefox in centos....I think I
> > > > must tweak anything, but in both I use the same updated nvidia
> > > > drivers.
>
> [...]
>
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