On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 23:45, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0700, James J. Ramsey wrote: > > I've noticed that antialiased fonts render differently > > on Red Hat than other distros I've tried. The fonts > > render slightly thicker, and the fuzziness is less > > obvious. I've been trying, mostly out of curiosity, to > > find out what makes the difference, but have had no > > luck tracking down whatever changes or adjustments Red > > Hat made. > > > > How does Red Hat do it? > > > > Font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, and when running GNOME > also overridden by the stuff in Preferences->Fonts Actually, I've tried to keep most rendering configuration (for non-GNOME) in /etc/X11/Xresources. The relevant part is: ! hintstyle: medium means that (for Postscript fonts) we ! position the stems for maximum constrast and consistency ! but don't force the stems to integral widths. hintnone, ! hintslight, and hintfull are the other possibilities. Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium Xft.hinting: true Note that this part requires a patch to Xft that is *not* upstream. XFree86-4.2.99.3-loadtarget.patch ... the rendering code is there in standard FreeType, but there is no way of configuring it through standard Xft. Regards, Owen
