Bistream vera sans looks thinner and better on a certain screenshot.

[Arvind Autar <arvind autar gmail com>]

Hello world,

   1.  Version of Freetype, Xft2 and fontconfig
arvind girlfriend:~$ dpkg -l | grep freetype
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-2.3      FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-2.3      FreeType 2 font engine, development files
arvind girlfriend:~$ 

arvind girlfriend:~$ dpkg -l | grep xft     
ii  latex-xft-font 0.1-5          Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts
ii  libxft-dev     2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing library for X (d
ii  libxft1        4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v
ii  libxft2        2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing library for X
arvind girlfriend:~$ 

arvind girlfriend:~$ dpkg -l | grep fontconfig
ii  fontconfig     2.2.3-4        generic font configuration library
ii  libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4        generic font configuration library (shared l
ii  libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4        generic font configuration library (developm
arvind girlfriend:~$ 


   2. Whether TT hinting is being used, or the autohinter

I tried both options

   3. Application being used

gtk applications in general, showing fonts in gtk-theme-switch2

   4. Character/Unicode code point that has problems (if applicable)
arvind girlfriend:~$ locale 
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
arvind girlfriend:~$ 

   5. Version of which operating system
arvind girlfriend:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
3.1
arvind girlfriend:~$ 

Running unstable 

   6. Please include a screenshot, when possible.

prefered look: http://arvind.dyndns.org/usr/fonts/bistreamverasans.png

http://arvind.dyndns.org/usr/fonts/ 1 until 4.png

I tried alot of things.disable AA, font hinting, remove bytecode
interpreter well, this didn't give me any better result.


Arvind


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