Re: font fuzziness with Bitstream Vera

[Charlie Lowe <cel4145 cyberdash com>]

Thanks, Jim :)

But I'm wondering under what conditions this might happen in Windows, 
and less about how to fix it. Given that Bitstream Vera ships with 
OpenOffice, it seems likely that a large number of users who are open 
source and free software advocates that still end up using Windows in 
certain instances, such as myself, might encounter the same display 
problem. So I'm more interested in what situations this might affect the 
user experience at drupal.org.

Jim Gettys wrote:

> The common cause of this (and why you see it on some Linux systems and
> not others) is that Apple has a patent on certain byte codes in the
> TrueType hinter, effective only in the U.S. and Great Britain.
>
> Some Linux distributions ship with the freetype truetype hinter disabled
> (enabling a "autohinter") and some with it enabled.
>
> Results are much higher when the TT hinter is able to do its full work.
>
> It is pretty easy to rebuild freetype to enable the full hinting
> to be effective.
>
> The best results also require subpixel decimation to be enabled
> (on flatpanels) increasing the effective horizontal resolution.
> 			Regards,
> 			- Jim
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:21 -0500, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>
> > http://drupal.org/ just updated it's web design to use Bitstream Vera. 
> > Some windows users are reporting fuzziness of the font in this thread:
> >
> > http://drupal.org/node/11695
> >
> > and here's a screenshot:
> >
> > http://www.clickbrain.com/images/drupalscreen.png
> >
> > I've also experienced it, too, on an ASUS GeForce 5700 with a Viewsonic 
> > 17" LCD. But it's intermittant.
> >
> > Anyone know why this is happening? Is it a display driver bug, as 
> > suggested in this thread, and if so, under what conditions/hardware 
> > configurations it is likely to be a problem?
> >
> > Charlie Lowe
> > http://cyberdash.com/
> >
> >
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