Subj : Re: big problem with text sharpness
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Victor Nazarov
Date : Sat Jun 19 2004 12:17 am

M Berger wrote:
> I'm having a problem with text sharpness on my monitor. The text is
> fuzzy and induces eyestrain. I believe it's a combination of two
> factors: one, that linux font rendering is still poor, and 2) and the
> fact that I have a big (21") aperture grill monitor -- a cornerstone
> p1750. AG monitors are known for having less sharp text than shadow
> mask monitors. I have tried everything I could think of - I exchanged
> the monitor (originally I had a viewsonic p220f), added a slew of
> truetype fonts from microsoft, upgraded freetype to the latest
> version, optimized the DPI values for the fonts. I tried turning
> antialiasing on and off. I am really at my wits end -- I hope someone
> out there can steer me in the right direction.
> 
> By the way, I'm using redhat enterprise 3.0 with gnome 2. My video
> card is an nvidia quadro fx 1100 (which is at the high end of the
> middle grade for video cards). Running at 1600 x 1200 resolution at
> 85hz.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
> 
> Michael
There is one more solution, you can enable bitmap fonts to be used with 
fontconfig.
In Debian you can run
# dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
or manually edit /etc/fonts/local.conf file and add or uncomment
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
line.
The you must go to Gnome font-properties dialog to set some good looking 
bitmap fonts to be used by default, it gives really good results!!!
--
vir

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