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[HowTo] Turn On/Off Font Antaliasing
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Iguleder
 Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1631 Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert |
Turn On/Off Font Antaliasing by Iguleder This guide instructs you how to enable or disable font antialiasing (smoothing) and hinting. Antialiased fonts appear smooth, without sharp corners, in contrast with un-antialised fonts, which are sharp. Changelog:
___________________________________ BEFORE DOING IT: - In Puppy, by default, it's turned on for JWM. However, if you want to install XFCE/KDE/GNOME, I *think* it's off by default for them. - Choose between on and off. You can reverse the changes (delete the created files) and try both modes. - This is easy. Don't panic. REQUIREMENTS: - Linux. ___________________________________ Step 1: for JWM. Choose between on and off. Turning antialiasing fonts will result in sharp fonts, which may be unreadable on some LCD monitors. Generally, it is recommended that you turn it on for LCD monitors and off for CRT monitors. (Left: off, right: on, see the difference) 
Step 2: copy the code. On:
Off:
Open Geany ('edit' icon on your Puppy desktop) and paste the code (CTRL + V). Then save the file as /root/.fonts.conf (attention: there's a dot before "fonts"). Step 3: for GNOME/XFCE (only if you have any). Go to the console, and run: cp /root/.fonts.conf /etc/fonts/local.conf Enjoy, fellow mates. 
Last edited by Iguleder on Thu 27 Aug 2009, 06:41; edited 2 times in total |
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Sit Heel Speak
 Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind |
(deleted in penitence by poster) Last edited by Sit Heel Speak on Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:24; edited 1 time in total |
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Sit Heel Speak
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind |
deleted by poster who is scourging self to do penitence Last edited by Sit Heel Speak on Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:25; edited 1 time in total |
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Iguleder
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1631 Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert |
Right. Yawn. |
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Sit Heel Speak
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind |
deleted by poster who humbly beseeches forgiveness Last edited by Sit Heel Speak on Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:25; edited 1 time in total |
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Iguleder
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1631 Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert |
Yeah, sure. 
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mikeb
 Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378 |
finally I now know why I have always had georgous fonts on puppy 2.xx with xfce4 including on firefox but was puzzled to not have that on puppy 4..I guess the installer did this for me I can now sleep soundly mike |
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firepants-jr
Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 13 Location: Tulsa, OK, USA |
I appreciate your effort to contribute. Discouraging member contribution runs contrary to the spirit of the Linux community. Ignore detractors and keep helping in whatever works best for you. Thanks. 
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Iguleder
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1631 Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert |
About the "let go your ego", I don't see where it fits. The only one who doen't "let go your ego" is the person who said this! He tells me to "let go my ego" while he links to his post (he's trying to prove that downloading a huge .PET is a better way to turn on antialiasing, actually)! I'm just trying to contribute from my knowledge and my experience, I'm not trying to hurt anyone. That's my thing. |
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trio
 Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1786 Location: अनुमोदना |
No worries, just do your thing, somebody else might find it useful. Cool down......whoosa
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mikeb
Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378 |
With a forum this size its not uncommon for there to be duplicate information ... I actually though Sit Heel Speak was dealing with more than just a quick fonts.conf fix for browser rendering which I posted elsewhere too ... At the end of the day everyone is simply trying to help with information that they have gathered themselves.....I certainly have no ambitions to be top dog....in fact I'm not sure if I have an ego
mike |
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Sit Heel Speak
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind |
May I inquire, Iguleder,--if you will countenance my daring to approach, after my insolent first reaction, so full of my own ego-- on what Puppy, and under what window manager, you have found this elegant solution to be of benefit? |
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Iguleder
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1631 Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert |
On both 4.2.1 and my custom dpup (476). It should work on all Puppies. As I said, it's on for by default in JWM, but off in XFCE/GNOME, so it may be useful for NOP users, for instance. |
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mikeb
Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378 |
Ok xfce on 4.12...copied /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as is to /root/.fonts.conf and voila those perfect fonts I've been used to in puppy 2 in firefox...better than my original file hyjacked from ubuntu...(gave coloured edges to fonts) Why the difference between puppy versions....different versions of gtk2/pango etc have their config files in different places...the daft barstewards
mike edit...its probably the version of gtk2 that the browser was compiled against maiking a difference |
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Sit Heel Speak
Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 2595 Location: downwind |
I just tried making a bci-hinting-enabled libfreetype PET for 4.12-regular. Official Puppy 4.12, with my .pet installed, looks awful! Whereas, simply writing iguleder's code to /root/.fonts.conf, but not to /etc/fonts/local.conf, looks great! In fact, this "4.12-iguleder" looks very nearly as good as 4.20 looks with my full bci font tweaks. upup-466 does not improve with bci tweaking, either. I think I'll go try iguleder's method... It must be as mikeb says: different ways that gtk, pango/cairo, libXft, Seamonkey are compiled, in different Puppies means that these different methods of font tweaking, produce different results on different Puppy versions. |
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