Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-06 Thread Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis
Israel, i try to make this packages in fedora but no sucess! -- Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis -> Oportunix IT Services Brasil -> Site: http://www.oportunix.com.br -> Fone: +55 13 3822 2300 -> Móvel: +55 11 8017 5065 -> Skype: oportunix -> Registered Linux User: 305281 2011/5/6 Israel Lopes dos Sant

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-06 Thread Israel Lopes dos Santos
I believe that Ubuntu has patched some libs to tweak the font rendering. In the Arch Linux i've found packages with patches from Ubuntu: freetype2-ubuntu fontconfig-ubuntu libxft-ubuntu cairo-ubuntu There is a way to convert the equivalent ubuntu packages to fedora or compile the fedora libs wit

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-06 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On 05/06/2011 11:34 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: > Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> On 05/06/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: >>> The screenshots show that you have got sub-pixel anti-aliasing enabled >>> on Ubuntu, but only greyscale anti-aliasing on Fedora. Sub-pixel >>> anti-aliasing is

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-06 Thread Paul Flo Williams
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On 05/06/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: >> The screenshots show that you have got sub-pixel anti-aliasing enabled >> on Ubuntu, but only greyscale anti-aliasing on Fedora. Sub-pixel >> anti-aliasing is the appropriate choice for an LCD display. > > How doe

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-06 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On 05/06/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: > Israel Lopes dos Santos wrote: >> I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not >> smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. > The screenshots show that you have got sub-pixel anti-aliasing enabled > on Ubuntu, but only

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Flo Williams
Israel Lopes dos Santos wrote: > > I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not > smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. The screenshots show that you have got sub-pixel anti-aliasing enabled on Ubuntu, but only greyscale anti-aliasing on Fedora. Sub-pixel anti-al

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 12:37:28 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> I was thinking more of the hinting and anti-aliasing settings rather >> than of the actual fonts. > > In the ubuntu case, I'm pretty certain the actual > fonts are considerably different. I

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 05 May 2011 22:11:53 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > so the question becomes, how the devil do you determine the > > actual font name at the end of all the chains of aliases? > > fc-match Wow! I've been wondering how to do that for ages! Thanks! Got to record that where I'll be able to

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 5 May 2011 12:37:28 -0400 Tom H wrote: > I was thinking more of the hinting and anti-aliasing settings rather > than of the actual fonts. In the ubuntu case, I'm pretty certain the actual fonts are considerably different. I think I've even seen some references to the default ubuntu fonts

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/05/2011 09:45 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:29:23 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> If you're using GNOME, check the "Fonts" tab in the "Appearance" panel >> and change the Fedora settings to match the Ubuntu settings. > The trouble with this sort of thing is that the default > setti

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 12:15 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > The trouble with this sort of thing is that the default > settings simply use an alias like "monospace" or "serif", > so the question becomes, how the devil do you determine the > actual font name at the end of all the chains of aliases? That

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:29:23 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> If you're using GNOME, check the "Fonts" tab in the "Appearance" panel >> and change the Fedora settings to match the Ubuntu settings. > > The trouble with this sort of thing is that the def

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:31 -0300, Israel Lopes dos Santos wrote: > I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are > not smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. > > Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success. > Also tried some tutorials on the intern

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Does yum install bitmap-fonts fonts-ISO\* help improve your fonts? I like the fonts that come with this (in the sense that I am reasonably satisfied after I install them). HTH, Ranjan On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:15:04 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:29:23 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:29:23 -0400 Tom H wrote: > If you're using GNOME, check the "Fonts" tab in the "Appearance" panel > and change the Fedora settings to match the Ubuntu settings. The trouble with this sort of thing is that the default settings simply use an alias like "monospace" or "serif",

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Israel Lopes dos Santos wrote: > > I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not > smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. > Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success. Also > tried some tutorials on the internet t

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Tom Horsley
> There is some way to get smooth fonts like ubuntu on my fedora? Don't know. I have also been seeking ubuntu fonts on fedora, but even if I figure out how to get the fonts themselves, there is no telling if the font rendering engines are the same (well, there is telling, but it is a major researc

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Digvijay Patankar
> >> I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not >> smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. >> >> Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success. Also >> tried some tutorials on the internet that not helped but not reached the >> smooth that I wante

Re: Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Israel Lopes dos Santos
Here 2 screenshots for comparison On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Israel Lopes dos Santos < israellsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Fedora users. > > I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not > smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. > > Tried to tweak the font on Gn

Ubuntu Smooth Fonts on Fedora

2011-05-05 Thread Israel Lopes dos Santos
Hi Fedora users. I've installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and notice that the fonts are not smooth like my other Ubuntu installation. Tried to tweak the font on Gnome Appearance, but no really success. Also tried some tutorials on the internet that not helped but not reached the smooth that I wanted