Antialiased fonts in Linux applications

[epilogue]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:20:24 +0200 (CEST)
Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net> wrote:

> 
> Font in Linux applications no longer render as they should. Both
> antialiasing and hinting is off. This applies to Acrobat Reader,
> Mathematica, Maple and Opera (ie. all my Linux applications)
> 
> I have symlinks to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/* in /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts
> 
> This used to work, but I don't know what has changed since then, since I
> did a lot of portupgrades in time between this was last known to work,
> and when it recently stopped working.

i noticed the same thing happen to my setup, after upgrading to xorg.  in
my case acroread works.  unfortunately, i don't run mathematica or maple. 
however, for linux-opera, try adding the following settings in
$HOME/.linux-opera/opera6.ini:

[User Prefs]        <<----  under this section
Enable Core X Fonts=0
Enable Xft Fonts=1
Trust Qt FontSwitching=0

though i find that many pages in opera don't look quite as sharp as before,
this should make your opera fonts look acceptable.   from within opera,
you can also tinker with alt+p > fonts in order to better align the output
to your tastes.

hopefully someone will suggest a more general (ie. system-wide) fix for
your issue.  in the meantime, i would suggest taking a gander at
your/var/log/Xorg.0.log for any error and warning messages.

hth.


cheers,
epi

 
> Any help would be greatly appricated.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Svein Halvor
> 
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