Re: [wlug] Fonts.

Oliver Jones wrote:

OK.. My bad. It seems last time I twiddled with "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" I turned on "Autohinting". Bad idea. It makes things fugly. Native is a much better idea.

Are you using an LCD screen? David Turner from Freetype has recently produced a patch to improve sub-pixel anti aliasing, which brings it on par with Microsoft's implementation (and possibly their patents, which is why this isn't currently in by default). Links from http://www.wlug.org.nz/SubPixelAntiAliasing, including some precompiled Ubuntu 6.06 packages to try. Craig