2009/3/22 Tomasz Torcz: > Fonts rendered on Ubuntu > are colorbanded, which make them look blurry... You are very correct, they are different, but Ubuntu's fontconfig is not "broken" -- it just has different default settings. Ubuntu's default filter is quite different, and some prefer Fedora's. You can gain Fedora's method under Ubuntu, actually -- just edit your fontconfig and apply the lcdlegacy filter (as mentioned in that Qt-subpixel post I linked above). But Fedora's only looks good at certain sizes (and with full hinting). If you were to increase your fonts to size 10, or use slight hinting, you'd notice that Fedora has very apparent color-banding that looks even WORSE than Ubuntu's. Fedora's default filter only looks good on small sizes with maximum hinting. Also, King InuYasha: you are confusing "hinting" with "subpixel antialiasing". They are two very different things. Microsoft has the patents for Cleartype (a method for subpixel-antialiasing, or "smoothing") while Apple owns the patents for the Truetype bytecode interpreter (which applies "font hinting" to fonts, making them more aligned with the pixels on the screen). Hinting is patented by Apple, yes, but we are not discussing hinting: we are discussing the subpixel methods, which are patented by Microsoft. Anyway, I am not talking about using the same cleartype-style algorithms that Ubuntu does. I am talking about using Qt's smoothing method to reduce color fringing, and how perhaps Fedora could encourage the Pango project to adopt it, if possible. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
