Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:21:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta2: Nice job! Message-ID: <17161.60804.429088.284519@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050822170139.lfz7hz7xbocs0coc@netchild.homeip.net> References: <17161.51084.456346.976929@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124715244.75167.40.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.53691.614602.758290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1124717191.75167.48.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <17161.55703.734118.584359@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050822170139.lfz7hz7xbocs0coc@netchild.homeip.net>
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Alexander Leidinger writes: > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > > > > Ah, so the deal is that you actually don't like the antialiasing > > > smoothness we all love. Hmm. > > > > Maybe it is something wrong with my eyes? > > Maybe you have better eyes than other people? I've always had better than 20:20 vision, so I suppose that could be it. Maybe I need to get some computer glasses that make everything blurry :) > Or you use the default anti-aliasing instead of subpixel anti-aliasing. I've tried various things in my ~/.fonts.conf. It currently looks like this: <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintslight</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="pattern" > <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> > > The odd thing is that when I hook my powerbook to my 1600x1200 lcd, > > somehow MacOSX makes fonts look decent. They are still blurry, > > but not nearly so bad. > > So this isn't about ordinary analog VGA connection vs. digital DVI connection > (I assume you use the same connector). But do you use the same fonts? The connection is DVI in both cases. I typically use the default fonts in all cases, as it seems the more I mess with things, the worse I make them. Drew
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