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Date:      Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:38:32 +0200
From:      Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
To:        Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de>
Cc:        freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Font Settings 
Message-ID:  <199904021338.PAA06349@bowtie.nl>
In-Reply-To: van.woerkom's message of Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:45:37 %2B0200. <199904021245.OAA00993@oranje.my.domain> 

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> Dear people,
> 
> my impression is that the rendering quality of the fonts under
> FreeBSD/X11 is quite worse than the ones used under Win32.
> 
> Is is to possible to increase display quality?
> 

Use the true type font renderer for X, in theory this should give
you better results as they also use the hints in the fonts. 
The type1 rasterer doesn't use hints, and thus looks bad in low
resolutions.

I have not yet tried the true type font Server, so let us know.

Marc.

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