Folks, I have a query. Does the X server do antialiasing? Because whenever I try viewing the ps or pdf files the fonts are horribly rendered. And generally my X looks grubby. Is this a problem with any specific version of X? I have an accelerated (Mach64) server running with 32bit color depth. Also I have seen some GNU/Linux boxes with KDE 2 where the fonts were rendered properly. Is this the doing of KDE? I dont have KDE and run GNOME+Enlightenment/fwm. Also I still havent been able to use the TTF fonts, from the windows partition, in X.
thanks, quasi
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Q u a s i wrote:
I have a query. Does the X server do antialiasing?
FreeType library that comes with XFree86 and renders TrueType fonts, does have support for anti-aliasing. But surprisingly the feature is turned off by default. You can turn it on by defining ANTI_ALIASING in appropriate file, probably in X11R6/xc/lib/font/FreeType/ftfuncs.h file.
Because whenever I try viewing the ps or pdf files the fonts are horribly rendered. And generally my X looks grubby.
Use acroread for viewwing pdf file instead of xpdf. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Also I still havent been able to use the TTF fonts, from the windows partition, in X.
Login as root and follow the steps (1) Goto your windows font directory (2) $ ttmkfdir > fonts.scale (3) $ mkfontdir (4) $ xset fp+ `pwd` (5) $ xset fp rehash (6) Use 'xlsfonts' to verify that fonts are now there in the current font path
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I have a query. Does the X server do antialiasing? Because whenever I try viewing the ps or pdf files the fonts are horribly rendered. And generally my X looks grubby. Is this a problem with any specific version of X? I have an accelerated (Mach64) server running with 32bit color depth. Also I have seen some GNU/Linux boxes with KDE 2 where the fonts were rendered properly. Is this the doing of KDE? I dont have KDE and
run
GNOME+Enlightenment/fwm.
Nope, X doesn't do antialiasing yet. I think it's in the works, somewhere. KDE does it in Konqueror, I think, but not everywhere else. Nautilus does it in it's views and Rasterman has some project underway that antialiases/shadows/translucents/whatever everything.
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