Fonts like Knoppix KDE on FC3 Gnome

[John Wendel]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:57:29 +0100 (BST)
> "Gavin Henry" <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> wrote:
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>>Dear Guys,
>>Has anyone seen how nice and crisp the Knoppix fonts are?
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>>I would love to get the same on either Gnome or KDE on FC3.
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>>I'm on a ATi 9500 Pro with a 19" LCD Monitor.
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>>I have tried everysetting with the fonts tool and messed a little with
>>~/.fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
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>>It looks as if they are not anti-aliased, but are sooo crisp.
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>>Any tips?
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> Don't have a Knoppix to try out currently, but have they perhaps turned on
> the bytecode interpreter in freetype?  If so, you can recompile your
> Fedora freetype RPM (from the SRPM - look at the spec file it contains
> and you'll see the relevant bits) to do that.
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This reference fixed my nasty font problems, maybe it will work for you.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/397

Regards,

John