[OT] Re: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono jagged

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif pinkjuice com>]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Vera is optimized for use anti-aliased.
>
> Windows (by default) does not; you are staring at bitmaps.
>
> You may prefer enabling ClearType on Windoze, or just using
> Linux, where AA behavior is the default (btw, make sure you use
> a Freetype with hinting turned on....).

Thanks a lot for the explanations.

> Linux can do even
> better than ClearType these days...

[here I'm going OT, sorry]

I've been planning on switching for a while. [1]

Do you think SuSE 9 would be a good choice? (offlist reply is OK)

Tobi

[1] http://www.pinkjuice.com/nx/win2lin.xhtml

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