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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:14:02 +0200
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org, "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: Beta2: Nice job!
Message-ID:  <1124720042.75167.50.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
In-Reply-To: <4309DB94.5090805@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson p=ED=B9e v po 22. 08. 2005 v 09:05 -0500:
> Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:57:09AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >=20
> >>Eric Anderson writes:
> >> >=20
> >> > Just to check the obvious, but, you are certain you are running at t=
he=20
> >> > native resolution of the LCD panel, correct?
> >>
> >>Yep, its running at the native resolution.
> >>
> >>Drew
> >=20
> >=20
> > For what it's worth, I've always found the anti-aliasing of fonts in
> > GTK applications to be sub-par. They all use Bitstream Vera at a=20
> > ridiculously small font size and seem to blur into the background by
> > like two pixels on each side. I don't mind Bitstream Vera at all,
> > but I agree, I cannot stand the way antialiased fonts look in these
> > applications.
>=20
> Agreed - it isn't perfect at all, but better than nothing (for me, but=20
> not everyone it seems).  Is there a way to change it?  I have to say,=20
> that Windows fonts nearly always look great.

This really isn't something for FreeBSD mailing list - you'd have to go
licence rendering engine from Microsoft or Apple and merge it into
Freedesktop/X.org sourcecode base... good luck!

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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>

How will you recognize experienced hacker from beginner?
Beginner thinks that kilobyte have 1000 bytes.
Experienced hacker thinks one kilometer have 1024 meters.

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