From owner-freebsd-mozilla Fri Apr 2 5:40:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mozilla@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE1014CB3 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 05:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id PAA25357; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:40:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06349; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:38:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <199904021338.PAA06349@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marc van Woerkom Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Font Settings In-reply-to: van.woerkom's message of Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:45:37 +0200. <199904021245.OAA00993@oranje.my.domain> Reply-To: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:38:32 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message