From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 01:56:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D731437B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com (rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com [24.73.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1195E43FBD for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wade@ezri.org) Received: (qmail 24843 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2003 08:56:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ezri.org) (192.168.0.46) by rrcs-se-24-73-205-166.biz.rr.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2003 08:56:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3E9E6C3D.3080602@ezri.org> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:56:29 -0400 From: Wade Majors User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030415 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnome@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Latest fontconfig and freetype rock X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:56:33 -0000 I had been using a ~/.fonts.conf to turn off anti-aliasing for fonts smaller than 10, since they looked really bad. With the latest versions (fontconfig-2.1.94 and freetype-2.1.4) the auto hinting and antialiasing has GREATLY improved. Fonts look spectacular even at lower sizes. If anyone has been using a similar work around as me, comment out the option in fonts.conf (comments in XML are ) and give it a shot. -Wade