Ubuntu :: Compiled Freetype From Source Most Of Fonts Look Awful Auto Hinter Prob?
Nov 24, 2010
I'm a compiling noob, but one who can follow well-written directions. I was led to believe that I needed to compile an updated version of freetype to satisfy some build dependencies in Wine, which I also needed to compile to be able to use a custom patch. So now my fonts look awful. I read the directions that came with the freetype source code, and one thing I didn't configure properly was the auto-hinter, which I believe to be the problem (although that's just an educated guess), since the documentation lacked the necessary docs.
how do I go back to stonking great fonts? I'd rather keep the new version of freetype, if someone could tell me how to properly configure it to display fonts correctly.
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Jun 5, 2010
My iceweasel version iceweasel:
Here are two screenshot of a Wikipedia page (modified via readability). My serif font is Liberation Serif.
Here is the same font in Open Office Writer
And here it is in KWrite
To me, the last two look all right-- at least all the lower case glyphs are the same height. So why does the font look so terrible in iceweasel?
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So this is my questions
if I did
Code:
$whereis yukon
#rm -rf /etc/yukon /usr/bin/yukon (and the rest of the direcories listed)
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Code:
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there is no file on my machine named that or any lowercase/uppercase combinations thereof.
here is the full spit out:
[jayjay@localhost lmms-0.4.5]$ cd build
[jayjay@localhost build]$ make
PROCESSOR: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Machine: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
-- Target host is 32 bit
-- Found Qt-Version 4.3.3
code....
i looked at version 2010 RPM file lists, still no FreeTypeConfig.cmake.
I even built cmake 2.8 from cmake's SF page, it has FindFreetype.cmake, but not FreeTypeConfig.cmake.
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Code:
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