Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.07.2017, Heinz Diehl wrote: > To me, v40 is far superior to v35. Fortunately, there's a way to > switch back to v35 behaviour. s/superior/inferior; ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le..

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2017, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Do you know why the font display looks broken with the new v40 engine? > Is that a bug in the freetype library or something that has to be > fixed in all applications? It's not a bug, it's meant to be a feature :-( https://tinyurl.com/ybf3fkwv > Star

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-18 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Heinz Diehl wrote: > 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 v

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2017, Neal Becker wrote: > 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/f

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2017, stan wrote: > It was so easy, I just changed it. It doesn't seem to have made any > difference, maybe after the next reboot. As far as I can see, the different hinting levels do no longer have any effect since freetype-2.7. Have to dig a little deeper into the sourcecode to fully

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 14 July 2017 at 15:28, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:09:02 -0400 > Neal Becker wrote: > >> 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. > > I have no idea w

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 07:59:54 -0700 stan wrote: > I'm using freetype-freeworld from rpmfusion. I followed your > original links, and ended up here, > https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.html > where I see a comparison between 35 and 40. My fonts look like the 35 > version.

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread stan
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:08:04 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 13.07.2017, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > > > Will give that a try. Thanks for the tip. > > In addition, to get really sharp fonts, you'll have to delete the > slight hinting set as default in /etc/fonts/conf.d and enable full > hinting.

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:09:02 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > 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. I have no idea where to do something similar in wayland. ___

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-14 Thread Neal Becker
Heinz Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > 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

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.07.2017, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > Will give that a try. Thanks for the tip. In addition, to get really sharp fonts, you'll have to delete the slight hinting set as default in /etc/fonts/conf.d and enable full hinting. Just delete the link to 10-hinting-slight.conf and create a new one to

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Patrick Laimbock
Hi, On 13-07-17 21:16, Heinz Diehl wrote: Hi, 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 th

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/13/2017 12:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:16:56 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: I have never been able to understand why people like the blurry and muddy Micro$oft-like font rendering... gaah Good info. I'm saving this for future reference, but one thing I have noticed is tha

Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:16:56 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > I have never been able to understand why people like the blurry and > muddy Micro$oft-like font rendering... gaah Good info. I'm saving this for future reference, but one thing I have noticed is that Ubuntu (which as far as I know adopts all

F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, 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=