From: Marcel Pol (mpol@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 09:16:17 EDT
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 11:12:21 +0200
Jost Ammon <jost@ammon-web.de> wrote:
> Now that I've installed the AbiWordtar.gz and the software is running nicely
> on my system I would like to improve the rendering of the fonts. The
> appearance is like on the Gtk-Gnome screenshots on
> http://www.abiword.org/screenshots/.
For the abiword1 fonts you could recompile the freetype packages you have, and
then with the bytecode-interpreter enabled. It improves the hinting of fonts
afaik. The autohinting in recent freetype packages should give comparable
hinting, but I never compared it, so I won't dare to say so.
> However I would like to have a rendering like on the AbiWord-2.0 GNOME
> Screenshot.
>
> My question is now if this has to do with libraries (then I'd like to know
> what I am likely to miss) or if it is a font installing topic, which leads
> me to the question how and where fonts can be installed.
>
> Another question is anti-aliasing. I may remember having seen this feature
> in the Win version, but don't find it in my Linux version (1.0-6).
Abiword1 doesn't have anti-aliasing, so you need abiword2 for that. It depends
on a newer version of Gtk+ (2.0/2.2), which supports anti-aliasing, and it
depends on fontconfig/Xft, which is part of XFree86-4.3. It depends on more
packages (Gnome2), and you will need a recent distro for that.
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