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Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

Upload a screen capture of your XP to tinypic, and post here the url, so I can see what I'm competing against...

***edited: I would especially like to see this page:

http://www.komonews.com/

whose webmaster seems fiendishly dedicated to continual refinement to make it ever more Vista-friendly and Linux-unfriendly...

***

PM me the /etc/fonts/local.conf that Deniros' package puts on your computer. Maybe improvements can be made there.

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

I should also here note, that the unpatented (i.e. default) autohinting of the newest libfreetype, in Puppy 4.1-alpha-5, is better than previous versions, actually pretty good; it's getting close to the point where there isn't enough difference between with and without my tweaks, to make the game worth the candle.

bobnutfield · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 60

Just followed your instructions, and wow, what a difference! Thank you. It makes the Puppy experience all the better!

Bob

astrogreek · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 29

astrogreek · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 29

Update: after doing a bit of searching and reading about Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac fonts, I realize that what fonts people like is highly subjective. I have seen example comparisons posted, where I find the Linux fonts horrible, while others have the opposite preference.
Ideally, I would like to be able to tune the font to my liking, like in Windows with the Cleartype tuning app.
In this image I prefer the "thinnest" font at the lower right:
http://i38.tinypic.com/9gx0ra.jpg

On the whole I like the fonts in Puppy very much, they are just a tad to heavy for me. But in Opera fonts look very bad. I tried a few tips to improve it, but that may have made things even worse.

disciple · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 16:47 Post_subject:

IMO it is definitely best not to have any font smoothing for small fonts like you would use for normal on-screen display. The first thing I do when I have to use a Windows machine is hunt down all the different controls to turn off cleartype - in Windows, in Office, in IE. It's quite painful because they hide all the controls, and the ones in Office 2007 always seem to be in different places, but at least it lets my eyes stop screaming Smile

astrogreek · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 29

http://img376.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fontswh5.png

I think the non-cleartype is a bit too thin and blocky; the cleartype is just right; and my Puppy Opera fonts are waaaay too heavy.

Josef · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 20

disciple · Posted: Tue 26 May 2009, 02:38 Post_subject:

FWIW Openoffice.org does use freetype... the problem is that it includes its own freetype (actually, 3.x may not... I can't remember; but it certainly did before). You can fix its font rendering by replacing its freetype with links to the system freetype.

I hope you get better soon SHS.

Bosola · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 19

Well, this is my first time posting, and I've only been using Puppy - or, indeed, any version of Linux - for a couple of days now.

Anyway, I'm using Boxpuppy, the Puplet that's integrated with OpenBox. Now, maybe I'm making some terribly newbish mistake here, but I've tried to use the .pet package, and initiating it simply causes my system to go dead. Just black and crash.

Can anyone help? Is this expected behaviour?

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

Bosola · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 19

I'm using Boxpup 4.1.2. I downloaded the .iso from here only two days ago.

Sit Heel Speak · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind

trio · Posted: Mon 10 Aug 2009, 04:00 Post_subject:

Hi Sit Heel Speak,

I need help, maybe off topic, but it's about fonts.

I need to have a list of fonts' REAL NAMES not the name of the .ttf files. Can you tell me how to get this done?

say I save it as /tmp/fontslist.txt:
monofonto
ionic charge
pdingobats
Dejavu Sans

Thanks in advance