Re: font fuzziness with Bitstream Vera

[Jim Gettys <Jim Gettys hp com>]

The common cause of this (and why you see it on some Linux systems and
not others) is that Apple has a patent on certain byte codes in the
TrueType hinter, effective only in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Some Linux distributions ship with the freetype truetype hinter disabled
(enabling a "autohinter") and some with it enabled.

Results are much higher when the TT hinter is able to do its full work.

It is pretty easy to rebuild freetype to enable the full hinting
to be effective.

The best results also require subpixel decimation to be enabled
(on flatpanels) increasing the effective horizontal resolution.
			Regards,
			- Jim
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:21 -0500, Charlie Lowe wrote:
> http://drupal.org/ just updated it's web design to use Bitstream Vera. 
> Some windows users are reporting fuzziness of the font in this thread:
> 
> http://drupal.org/node/11695
> 
> and here's a screenshot:
> 
> http://www.clickbrain.com/images/drupalscreen.png
> 
> I've also experienced it, too, on an ASUS GeForce 5700 with a Viewsonic 
> 17" LCD. But it's intermittant.
> 
> Anyone know why this is happening? Is it a display driver bug, as 
> suggested in this thread, and if so, under what conditions/hardware 
> configurations it is likely to be a problem?
> 
> Charlie Lowe
> http://cyberdash.com/
> 
> 
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