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can I earn this? I've installed Tahoma and Verdana, disabled antialiasing on small fonts but Linux(GTK?) renders the fonts differently like win. Is it possible to have fonts like on windows? (small size, without antialiasing) Linux renders small fonts ugly - some parts of a letter have two pixel width, other letter one pixel (becouse of number rounding?)...
 
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Truetype fonts are vector fonts. This is good for large font sizes, because it gives very smooth results. However, rendering vector fonts in small size gives ugly results. The common font size of around 8pt is too small on nowaday's screens for getting vector fonts rendered well (too few dpi). For this case, Truetype fonts can embed bytecode that gets executed by the system to help in rendering small sizes.
Due to patent reasons, this byte code must not be used by free software. There exists some workarounds like automatic hinting, but the result still looks different from the original.
If you're willing to pay the patent royalties (to Apple, IIRC) or if the patent laws don't apply to you or your country, you may get the source code of libfreetype (the Linux Truetype renderer) and enable the bytecode interpreter. It's there, just not enabled.
 
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
If you're willing to pay the patent royalties (to Apple, IIRC) or if the patent laws don't apply to you or your country, you may get the source code of libfreetype (the Linux Truetype renderer) and enable the bytecode interpreter. It's there, just not enabled.
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Hmm, is it just me or does the auto-hinted russian text in that screenshot in the mentioned thread actually look a lot better than the bytecode-interpreted version?
 
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Hmm, is it just me or does the auto-hinted russian text in that screenshot in the mentioned thread actually look a lot better than the bytecode-interpreted version?
I see what you mean

Bytecode version actually looks more "squashed" together.
 
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