[Lilux-help] Fonts, Monitors and Graphics cards

[Patrick Useldinger]

Patrick Kaell wrote:

> The only difference I see is that Windows doesn't use antialiasing.
> 
> This is intentional. Anti Aliasing uses grey pixels to make letters less 
> sharp (Kantenglättung). You can still configure Linux so that it doesn't 
> use anti aliasing (like Windows) and other stone age operating systems.

OK, I asked OOo to stop anti-aliasing. It did, and now the font is 
actually less "fuzzy", but still not as good as under XP. Are you sure 
Windows does no AA?

> Anyway, Anti Aliasing is a recent feature in Linux. Two years ago fonts 
> were as pixelized as in Windows ;-) But it seems that you do like 
> pixelized fonts ;-)

I have no problem being different ;-)

More seriously, one could either say that I don't like AA, or that the 
AA I've come across is not really good. I've read about having to 
recompile FreeType with an option to have a better quality AA; did 
anyone do this? If so, is it really better?

-pu