On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:18:59 -0800 Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you happen to remember the program's name? If so, it would be a > great help to anybody who needs it. It's a package, not a program, and it turns out to be freetype. They switched default font rendering, and turned off hinting. Here is some relevant information from the thread begun by Heinz Diehl. """ for those who love razorsharp fonts just like me but got the new v40 interpreter coming with freetype-2.7 enforced on them when installing F26: the good old v35 interpreter is still there (and I hope it will be forever). You can use it by setting the environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 If you also want subpixel rendering, which now is disabled by default, you can dig into the foption.h file in the config directory of the freetype sourcecode, uncomment the option and recompile. I have never been able to understand why people like the blurry and muddy Micro$oft-like font rendering... gaah.. Now we have to hack the source to get rid of that crap. https://tinyurl.com/ybf3fkwv """ """ > where are you setting this? Global environment variables belong into /etc/profile, and local ones into .bash_profile in your home directory. Here's the diff to re-enable subpixel rendering (simply uncommenting the option): diff -urN a/freetype-2.7.1/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h b/freetype-2.7.1/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h --- a/freetype-2.7.1/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h 2016-12-11 07:53:49.000000000 +0100 +++ b/freetype-2.7.1/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h 2017-07-13 20:51:26.727210939 +0200 @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ /* This is done to allow FreeType clients to run unmodified, forcing */ /* them to display normal gray-level anti-aliased glyphs. */ /* */ -/* #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING */ +#define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING """ """ > where are you setting this? If you aren't using wayland, session-wide environment variables can be set in scripts added to the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ directory. """ """ > to do something similar in wayland. By exporting the env var in ~/.bash_profile and possibly in a script in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; have a look at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736660#c63 """ """ freetype-freeworld on rpmfusion.org has subpixel rendering enabled. http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/26/Everything/x86_64/os/repoview/freetype-freeworld.html """ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
