On 10/14/2009 09:44 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 00:00 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Could anyone with graphic design experience offer more details on this bug? >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523487 >> >> Google confirms it's not just my impression. >> > Well, the only important difference there is that the font used by linux > version is bigger and uses just grey scale antialiasing as opposed to > the hinted subpixel antialiasing used by windows (not perfect either) -- > you are comparing apples with oranges. > > It seems that gecko respects system wide settings (sans size; come to > think of it, why is the font size in firefox apparently measured in > pixels instead of the usual typographic units [pt]?) as I have nice > fonts in (almost) default rawhide installation with subpixel hinting > turned on (and size toned down a bit) and it looks in firefox just the > same as in the rest of the desktop (and to say, much better than the > screenshots from both windows and fedora you provided, at least on my > laptop). > > I hook my laptop running F12 beta Live CD to my 1920x1080 43" LCD TV and it truly reveal how horrific the default fonts look like.. ( you will also notice how both the top and bottom panel are utterly broken. ). JBG
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