Here are some screenshots, were the bad.jpg is a good approximation of the original situation.<br><br>Maarten.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Behdad Esfahbod</b> <<a href="mailto:besfahbo@redhat.com">
besfahbo@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:14 +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote:<br>> Am i again asking the wrong mailinglist?<br><br>Yes, your question really belongs to freetype list. I don't know why<br>Werner sent you this way. Probably because he saw the XML snippets in
<br>your mail and automatically thought you have a fontconfig question.<br><br>Other than that, it helps a lot if you ask smart questions [1]. You<br>write "Around the release of freetype-2.3.0 default font settings
<br>changed". If you know that, please explain what changed so people can<br>help you. If you assumed that everybody knows that, surprise, you are<br>wrong. Most of the time developer try to avoid irritating changes. If
<br>you see one, more often than not the developers are not seeing it.<br>Either because they don't know about it or you have something<br>misconfigured on your system.<br><br>Anyway, asking a question like yours without attaching before/after
<br>screenshots and listing your font options is almost guaranteed to not<br>get any responses.<br><br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br>behdad<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
</a><br><br>> On 5/15/07, Maarten Maathuis <<a href="mailto:madman2003@gmail.com">madman2003@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Around the release of freetype-2.3.0 default font settings<br>> changed, i was faced with blurred fonts, unlike the nice fonts
<br>> that i was used to.<br>><br>> My question are:<br>><br>> - Why are this default settings this way?<br>> - Why isn't there a simple unblurred setting?<br>><br>
> After after some searching i found, the settings i needed to<br>> at least restore semi-acceptable fonts. Over time i tuned it<br>> and ended up with the local.conf at the bottom of this e-mail.
<br>><br>> My question is, isn't it possible to use more sane defaults<br>> when the bytecode interpeter is on and maybe try to improve<br>> the default selection of fonts (override fonts that look like
<br>> crap).<br>> Some fonts actually look quite good with just hinting.<br>><br>> Sincerely,<br>><br>> Maarten Maathuis.<br>><br>> <?xml version="1.0
"?><br>> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"><br>> <fontconfig><br>> <match target="font" ><br>> <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>none</const> </edit>
<br>> <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>true</bool><br>> </edit><br>> <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>false</bool>
<br>> </edit><br>> <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" > <bool>false</bool><br>> </edit><br>> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintfull</const>
<br>> </edit><br>> </match><br>> </fontconfig><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Fontconfig mailing list<br>
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</a><br>--<br>behdad<br><a href="http://behdad.org/">http://behdad.org/</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>