Pidgin 2.3 vs Gutsy

[kalpik]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

Arey nahi bhai logon. Just haf a look at these two screenshots of the same page:

iMav's screenie:



My screenie:



I certainly find the fonts on iMav's system badly rendered. Anyways, we are digressing from the topic.

Infra, what are your font settings?

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ Smoothing set to Subpixel and Hinting set to Slight. Fonts: Lucida, Aquabase and Bitstream sans.

The necessary font config files and fonts are bundled in the Mac4Lin package, the instructions to install them are in the Mac4Lin Documentation.

[kalpik]

Thanks

[iMav]

infra i did it but the overall look is much much much better my browser fonts are totally messed up opera fonts look to small; ff fonts seem broken

[praka123]

cant u go to firefox or other browsers setup page to choose fonts and their size

[iMav]

tried a few settings here and there did no good

[praka123]

@imeow:this is how we have our desktop!dont know what is wrong with u and ubuntu

^see the font smoothening.Urs dont have
i have a news for u!u can get fonts anti-aliasing working by System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details
^select Hinting=NO/Slight it shud work try and post.also select the dpi as 96 for most displays in details menu.

ps:did u see what i'm getting instead of apple logo!

[iMav]

this is what i have everything other than the browsing window is perfect:



and yeah the settings aare as uv said already

[praka123]

this is weird.see my firefox(iceweasel) settings.

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by iMav

this is what i have everything other than the browsing window is perfect:



and yeah the settings aare as uv said already

Hey everything is just fine If you've followed the guide then the fonts in the browser should be like that, as in Windows while system wide they should be smooth. I see that you are now hafing a font setup which the guide aims to achieve

@Prakash
Even your fonts look a bit badly rendered (or is it just my eyes??)

[praka123]

^Im using a samtron 56V 15" CRT monitor and i have used sans,Luxi sans,Tahoma,Bitstream vera sans etc.I have SPR off(why i need it )may be u need an eye checkup 8)

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by praka123

may be u need an eye checkup 8)

Lolz.. Mebbe yes!

Here's my screenshot of the same page:



We are again digressing from the topic. I think we should haf a thread about font rendering!

[praka123]

^well,I'm on Debian Sid resolution is 800x600@85Hz max supported.so it looks big and I think the fonts anti-aliasing is enough.I can make it more sharp.but i liked this way,old windows cleartype habits

u guys watching thread just say which is good?

[infra_red_dude]

Hehe.. ok, No more comments on Fonts!!

Too much of zooming into pics and correcting that "extra pixel" for Mac4Lin icons is showing its effects, I guess!

[iMav]

@infra u mean to say that my fonts will be like taht

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ Yes, but if wanna change to what I haf here then download these 2 files. As root place them in /etc/fonts, replacing the orignal files (after taking a backup of original files). Except these two files delete all other files (again, after taking a backup).

BTW I dunno why you are hafing trouble with your setup. Thats exactly how it is in Windows.

[iMav]

windows' in window display is also same as what is the overall look the fonts look a lot thin and broken now (that is only the forum or other website text)

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ Errr... I didn't get you.

Mebbe we should start another thread on Font Tweaking. It would help others as well

[Faun]

Originally Posted by iMav

windows' in window display is also same as what is the overall look the fonts look a lot thin and broken now (that is only the forum or other website text)

try no squint extension for firefox

Search in add/remove programs microsoft core fonts, install'em

Now in appearance>fonts select "Verdana" with appopriate size, in details select slight and subpixel(LCDs)

it worked for me

[iMav]

it is set to slight & subpixel but still its only web sites that are messed up - opera is worst hit and ff is looking bad really bad

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by iMav

arre import aur run mein kitna farak hai yaar ... confuse kyon karte ho mereko - run bolo ya import bolo

you sound like a kid

[Cyrus_the_virus]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

you sound like a kid

That's coz he is one

[iMav]

abey uncle log

ok the font thing is driving me nuts .... i cant bear the ff fonts ... help me please some 1

[praka123]

First,do u have a non-CRT monitor?do u have LCD/TFT monitor?
^then u need to enable sup-pixel rendering.enable it in font preferences.
secondly does freetype module loads?firefox too afaik depends on that!

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep freetype

ideally,in ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf file,u may have:

Section "Files"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        Fontpath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        # path to defoma fonts
        Fontpath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load            "dbe"
        Load            "glx"
        Load            "ddc"
        Load            "extmod"
        Load            "type1"
        Load            "freetype"
        Load            "bitmap"
        Load            "int10"
        Load            "vbe"
EndSection

^as for an nvidia user,disable "dri" module is a must.dont care for it in ubuntu though.
just show the o/p of :

xrdb -query | grep antialias

also in a terminal start firefox as follows open this forum page and see whether font anti-aliasing works or not:

GDK_USE_XFT=1 firefox

Also what is ur display resolution and frequency?and do u have in Ubuntu the same resolution and frequency as in ur preferred Vista?
also post the o/p of:

xdpyinfo |grep dimen

xdpyinfo |grep reso

and if ur courageous, u can try below command in terminal and read the options to manage fonts:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig fontconfig-config

Post ur results!no single answer please!

PS:my nvidia device section in xorg.conf is as below:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT]"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Busid           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "AddARGBVisuals"        "True"
        Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals"     "True"
        Option          "NoLogo"        "True"
        Option          "UseEdidDpi"   "FALSE"
        Option          "DPI"   "96 x 96"
EndSection

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by iMav

ok the font thing is driving me nuts .... i cant bear the ff fonts ... help me please some 1

Just use the font settings I've shown in the screenshot above. That would mostly solve your problem in FF.

[iMav]

its almost the same thing only a few fonts which arent there iv used some replacement

[infra_red_dude]

Don't use any of the MS fonts (Ariel, Tahoma, Verdana etc.) They are the ones that are modified to look like that in Windows (and hence thin).