Re: Improve font quality?

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:42:46PM -0300, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote:
>     I have been using redhat 6.1 and netscape for a few days and I
>have noticed that the fonts quality when accesing web pages is really
>low compared to the quality you get when you access the same pages
>with a mac or a windows pc.  I mean that after a few hours working
>with the computer you really get tired of staring at the screen.
> 
>     - Is there any way to solve this problem?

 http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html (De-uglification)
 http://home.powertech.no/rkaa/linux.html#ttf

will help.

>     - What about the comercial graphics servers that are being offered
> daily? are they worth the price or the do not improve on anything?
>     - Has anyone found any suitable solution or suffers the same problem
> that I suffer?
>     - What is anti aliasing or something called font smoothing and does the
> mac and the windpws pc work using that technique? and finally which
> is the state of this technique in the GNU/linux world?

I think XFree 4.0 is going to have significant font improvements.
Maybe just around the corner. 

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Hal B
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