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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 14:28:43
Message-ID: 42fa3df30909290728j71b55e3ek31ee75fc441bc05f () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/29 Aekold Helbrass <helbrass@gmail.com>:
>> 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 dont understand how is this related to this discussion ? (Besides
> the fact that Okular/poppler precisely doesn't honor FC settings)
>
> Your screenshot falls more in the UI text category, and aside from
> that, just because font hinting can look good in one case doesn't
> address my argument that it looks bad an is even non-functional in
> other cases...
>
> In order to be relevant to this discussion, your screenshots should
> show Okular and KWord rendering at various zoom levels, and should not
> only look neat but should also show that zooming is really zooming and
> doesn't show a wholly different document.

Hm, thanx for explanation. I'll try today evening.

> Benoit
 
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