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Vista fonts in ubuntu. Where is my antialiasing?!
If there is one thing M$ really knows how to do - that would be fonts. And as long as I have the license to use them (yes, my laptop came with Vista Home Basic) why not make use of them.
There is one strange thing though some fonts, like Calibri don't seem to be antialiased. What a hell? As it turns out, these fonts have embeded bitmaps in them. So we need to explicitly disallow this feature. Just add the following section your ~/.fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"><fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match></fontconfig>
January 16th, 2009 - 09:58
Thank you very much. Worked very well for me.
I would like to note that unfortunately Microsoft, besides making nice fonts, also does better anti-aliasing.
January 16th, 2009 - 14:18
Alas, you’re right. And both of them are worse than Apple.