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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:37:09 -0800
From:      Pramod Venugopal <pramod@dvnull.org>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andy Harrison <aharrison@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: kde and gnome/gtk font appearance...
Message-ID:  <1166913429.18565.1.camel@phobos>
In-Reply-To: <a22ff2940612231406g17d7f11cpfdb1394a52e9f431@mail.gmail.com>
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I am not sure if this might help, but it does improve the way fonts are
rendered for me in KDE and Gnome.

Basically it turns on hinting.

Put this in a file called .fonts.conf in your home directory.
--8<--
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>
--8<--
- Pramod

On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 17:06 -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
> On 12/23/06, Andy Harrison <aharrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone could explain this discrepancy in font appearance.
> >
> > Here is how fonts appear on my desktop apps in gnome/metacity.
> >
> 
> Oops, first screenshot should be...
> 
> http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotgnomebx8.jpg
> 




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