Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 21:57, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest > of the installation actually worked fine. > > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/07/2011 04:19 AM, Tim wrote: > 1. "Sans" isn't the actually same font on each. I checked this the other day wich fc-match and it returned "DejaVu Sans" so it's the same as Fedora. On their latest release, 10.10, they introduced their new font (the "Ubuntu Font") and they use that across

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/06/2011 08:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest > of the installation actually worked fine. > > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions on >

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 14:57 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I followed all the instructions on > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but the fonts > look pretty much unchanged: > > http://www.rath

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/06/2011 02:15 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 02/06/2011 03:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look >> different. > > I'm on Fedora 14 and mine looks like this (which is more similar to your > Ubuntu screenshot than the Fedora one):

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:29:10 -0400 Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Why are we still getting the freetype package without the > bytecode-interpreter on? Read here: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,110733 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WAT

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/06/2011 04:15 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > (which is the regular freetype package but compiled with the > bytecode interpreter enabled) ...and on why doesn't the stock freetype package comes with the bytecode-interpreter enabled? There were some patents from Apple that prevented Fedora from

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/06/2011 03:57 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look > different. I'm on Fedora 14 and mine looks like this (which is more similar to your Ubuntu screenshot than the Fedora one): http://imagebin.org/136443 The only thing I did after

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:57:26 -0500 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Any recommendations? Not really, but if you figure it out, please post the solution. I don't know what ubuntu does (maybe just different defaults), but one of the things I suspect that attracts people to ubuntu is that the fonts just alway

How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-06 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I pulled myself together and worked around the LVM problem and the rest of the installation actually worked fine. Now I'm wondering if there is a way to get the font rendering to look different. I followed all the instructions on http://fedorasolved.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts/, but