Re: Improve font quality?

[Kerry Blalock <kerrycb ix netcom com>]

For a temp fix, you might consider playing around with the different
font options in netscape. I selected differt font and size and it
improved the look a lot.

Kerry B

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
> 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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