Enable Smooth Fonts in Debian.

02-06-2008	#1 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Enable Smooth Fonts in Debian. Hi Friends ! I am using Debian unstable for last 3-4 months and couldn't configure fonts properly. Fonts were not smooth, installed msttcorefonts, tweaked font config, anti-aliasing etc.. but result was not good. I found a font.conf from somewhere over net ( dont remember link ) and it has changed smoothness drastically. I am really impressed with it. Copy font config, save it as font-conf and replace it with .font.conf of your home folder. Code: cd mv .font.conf font.conf.bak mv font-conf .font.conf Restart X Server and see the difference. Its worth to try. If you like it, delete font.conf.bak file. You can use same config in Ubuntu/Kubuntu too. font-conf : Code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const>none</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" > <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" > <const>hintnone</const> </edit> </match> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> Enjoy smooooth Fonts ! __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First Last edited by devils casper; 02-10-2008 at 03:33 AM..

02-06-2008	#2 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 12,051	Hey, thanks for the HowTo, casper. Fonts have always been a very touchy subject under Linux for me, too, and I've hated the results every time right after installing the MS core fonts. Fortunately, my fonts have looked great under Arch for the last few years, now. __________________ oz New Members: * README *

02-06-2008	#3 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Non-smooth fonts irritate me a lot and I was struggling for last 3-4 months. My search for smooth fonts ends here and I am happy now.. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

02-10-2008	#4 (permalink)
emerica Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 15	Wow devils_casper this is a great post! I had to alter your directions a weed bit though. My fontconfig folder is ".fontconfig" not ".font.config". I am using Lenny by the way. But other than that these fonts are smooth! Thanks a lot.

02-10-2008	#5 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Hi emerica ! It was a typo and I have corrected that. Font config filename is .font.conf instead of .font.config. Thanx for pointing it out. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

02-10-2008	#6 (permalink)
MikeTbob Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panther City, Tx Posts: 4,100	It works for Gentoo also, thanks DC! __________________ I do not respond to private messages asking for help. Please keep it on the forums only.

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Originally Posted by MikeTbob

It works for Gentoo also, thanks DC!

You are Welcome Mike and thanx for the Info.

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03-19-2008	#8 (permalink)
lindylex Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 9	devils casper, you are a God. Now my Mac friends will wish they had a Debian install. I have no idea how you figured this out but if you would like to go into details I would be very happy to be your humble student. Thanks Lex

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hugortega Linux Newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 130	Hey man!, This works fantastic! specially on FireFox.... ... Thanks a lot! Hugo __________________ EOF

03-19-2008	#10 (permalink)
gruven Linux User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Arkansas Posts: 439	You can also go into about:config in firefox and do a search for freetype and turn the hinting on. I haven't had a problem with fonts not being smooth on my debian box. I use the Liberation-ttf fonts from RedHat and in KDE I just turn smoothing on. Of course, I could have changed something and not realized it because I have had this /home partition for ages. __________________ Linux User #376741 Preferred Linux Distro: Funtoo Screenshots Remember, Ubuntu is A Linux distribution, not THE Linux distribution. There is no need to login to the GUI as root!

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