Comments on: In search of perfect font rendering on Linux http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/ the web site of kevin williams Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:47:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: mark http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-78 mark Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:16:08 +0000 http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-78 Thanks for the useful howto, I really needed it. Never had any idea what this "hinting" thing actually meant. Also, since you asked, yes, I did notice two errors in this article, and I am sure they will soon be fixed. Thanks for the useful howto, I really needed it. Never had any idea what this “hinting” thing actually meant. Also, since you asked, yes, I did notice two errors in this article, and I am sure they will soon be fixed.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-1930 Andrew Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:48:32 +0000 http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-1930 Dear Kevin, Thanks for the information. I tried out your config file but noticed that on certain web pages it blows the font size up so large that only the upper half of the text is displayed. That said, the text that was displayed was very superior to the default settings I was using. Why would it be doing this? Kind regards, Andrew Dear Kevin,

Thanks for the information. I tried out your config file but noticed that on certain web pages it blows the font size up so large that only the upper half of the text is displayed. That said, the text that was displayed was very superior to the default settings I was using. Why would it be doing this?

Kind regards,
Andrew

]]> By: Kevin Williams http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-1931 Kevin Williams Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:50:04 +0000 http://www.isolationism.com/2006-12-27/font-rendering-on-linux/#comment-1931 Hi Andrew! Thanks for dropping me a line. Regarding your question: There's nothing in the configuration file above that should be altering the size of fonts (although my post on 'fixing' Georgia does mention how I've done this on a smaller scale than what you're experiencing). My initial reaction to your problem suggests that it may be being cause by a couple of things: First, some setting in Firefox: I would test with another browser before doing anything else to see how fonts rendered. In my case, I spend weeks fiddling around trying to make Firefox look good until I (eventually) realised it wasn't the fonts that were at fault, but Firefox, which was statically linked to its own internal copy of the freetype library (I was using Gentoo's mozilla-firefox-bin package to make plugins work)! Looking at my test pages in Konqueror sorted me out, although just about any browser should work. If other browsers render everything the same as Firefox, then the problem is somewhere else--But I suspect it's going to be Firefox that's the problem. Hi Andrew! Thanks for dropping me a line. Regarding your question: There’s nothing in the configuration file above that should be altering the size of fonts (although my post on ‘fixing’ Georgia does mention how I’ve done this on a smaller scale than what you’re experiencing).

My initial reaction to your problem suggests that it may be being cause by a couple of things: First, some setting in Firefox: I would test with another browser before doing anything else to see how fonts rendered. In my case, I spend weeks fiddling around trying to make Firefox look good until I (eventually) realised it wasn’t the fonts that were at fault, but Firefox, which was statically linked to its own internal copy of the freetype library (I was using Gentoo’s mozilla-firefox-bin package to make plugins work)! Looking at my test pages in Konqueror sorted me out, although just about any browser should work.

If other browsers render everything the same as Firefox, then the problem is somewhere else—But I suspect it’s going to be Firefox that’s the problem.

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