On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:39 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > > he situation is better, but still far from what it was before: the way > > Firefox renders the fonts is rather mediocre. I have tried all > > suggestion that you gave me, but the progress is not perfect. Any > > further ideas? Regarding fonts everything was fine till I Installed > > msttcorefonts and rebooted. > > Well, have you tried removing those fonts? I've found some Microsoft > fonts to be rather poor looking. Likewise if I've installed some other > fonts that didn't come with Linux. > > Usually, we don't have them, and our browsers will use whatever font it > feels appropriate (which usually look good). But if a webpage calls for > a crappy font, and you have it, it'll use it. > > Some fonts seem designed to look good when used with certain types of > anti-aliasing techniques, and look bad when you don't have that type, or > none at all. Other's seem quite good without any anti-aliasing, then > get smudgey if you try it. > > I notice that the drivers for my NVidia card also add some anti-aliasing > and softening/sharpening options. I haven't played with them much, > other than deliberately seeing how bad they can make things look. There > could be other factors on your computer that are making fonts look bad > for you. > > Generally, I find things look very good on Fedora with the defaults, a > bit better when I played with the font rendering options. Firefox looks > a bit worse, but not staggeringly. Likewise with Opera, it seems that > quite a few web browsers do their own font rendering, independently of > the system. Medium weight fonts look a bit worse than normal or bold, > likewise with certain sizes. > > They look a lot better on a CRT screen than LCD, and that's because the > LCDs are a lower resolution and unable to smooth across pixels in the > way that CRTs do naturally. > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > Hi, Tim, My LCD (not high end, just a viewsonic VA1912wb) has almost identical resolution with the monitor it replaced (but a much better screen size for me). The blending issue is probably right, but the resolution is a red herring. Only the highest end monitors have better than 0.28mm resolution, whereas that is about standard for most LCD's today. Contrast is not quite as good on the LCD, which will be almost equivalent to the smearing caused by bandwidth limitation in the analog monitor. Other folks may say other things, but in most locations, LCD's have replaced other monitors pretty rapidly, and with the introduction of OLED monitors, the resolutions will improve further, almost to the limits of human vision, and with corresponding improvement in contrast (I have heard of 3000:1 contrast ratio in some labs now). I wouldn't go back to an analog monitor for any reason right now. But I do have poor vision compared to earlier in my life. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
