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setti
July 18th, 2009, 12:11
Hello everybody,

Is there a tricky manner to render font under X and take it looks like Cooltype font in Windows platform ???


Configuration:

HP-Pavilion laptop
FreeBSD 7.1
X11R6 + Motif WM

All the best
aragon
July 18th, 2009, 14:22
Is there a tricky manner to render font under X and take it looks like Cooltype font in Windows platform ???
Not really sure what you mean, but if you want Windows fonts then you should install ports/x11-fonts/webfonts.

If you have any other Windows fonts, X is completely capable of using them. Copy the .ttf files into ~/.fonts and run:


xset +fp=~/.fonts
fc-cache


Have a look at fonts-conf(5) and xset(1) for more information.
vermaden
July 18th, 2009, 14:40
@setti
I use that ~/.fonts.conf and am very happy (nice antialiased fonts):
http://pastebin.com/f2571412
setti
July 18th, 2009, 14:50
@setti
I use that ~/.fonts.conf and am very happy (nice antialiased fonts):
http://pastebin.com/f2571412

Yes, yes !!! I want antialiasing X fonts please can you be more comprhensive.

Thank you
vermaden
July 18th, 2009, 14:58
@setti

Save that config as ~/.fonts.conf and type fc-cache -r, then restart you favority application/or even whole desktop environment and chekc results.
setti
July 18th, 2009, 16:07
@setti

Save that config as ~/.fonts.conf and type fc-cache -r, then restart you favority application/or even whole desktop environment and chekc results.

Sorry nothing was happened ! :(
aragon
July 18th, 2009, 16:30
X fonts should be antialiased by default. The last time I installed X where it wasn't must have been almost a decade ago!

setti, have you got a screenshot showing what the problem is?
setti
July 18th, 2009, 19:57
setti, have you got a screenshot showing what the problem is?

http://pics.imagup.com/04/1247974874_ScreenShot.png (http://www.imagup.com/pics/1247974874.html)
setti
July 18th, 2009, 20:16
But font antialiasing (Emacs) under Windows is more beautiful!

http://uploads.imagup.com/10/1247976099_ScreenShot2.jpg (http://www.imagup.com/pics/1247976099.html)
vermaden
July 18th, 2009, 22:28
GTK1 based apps (your apps from screenshot) do not support font antialiasing, you will have to use GTK2 based apps for example.