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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font hinting: suggestion to consistently restrict its usage to UI
From:       Aekold Helbrass <helbrass () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-29 7:58:45
Message-ID: 42fa3df30909290058u2e31ceb0g6e506afb501aec8d () mail ! gmail ! com
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Guys, please compare 2 attached screenshots. I just modified
/etc/fonts/suse-hinting.conf to get those results. To the left - Arial
without autohinting, to the right - with autohinting. From my point of
view it's all depends on your fontconfig settings. I don't know Okular
or XPDF ignores those settings, but I am more than happy with Okular
and KDE in general font rendering, it is pain to see M$Win fonts at
office after home KDE fonts.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 06:13:39 schrieb Benoit Jacob:
>> * It breaks the notion of zooming. Zooming should give the user that
>> he's still looking at the exact same thing, just closer. But hinting
>> makes that look like a wholly different font. First, this ruins the
>> user's confidence in the Zooming feature. Second, the user will often
>> feel constrained to set the zoom level so that the on-screen font
>> looks good / accurate.
>
> Total agreement from my side. I have had this in Okular enough times. I'm also
> regularly using pdflatex, so my documents look similar to your test
> screenshots. It's just ugly, though I haven't been able yet to point at the
> reason.
>
> Greetings
> Stefan
>
>
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