Comments on: Fonts as sharp as razors: Crux ports for -LCD patches

By: tkovacs

tkovacs — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:39:47 +0000

On your menubar S and O are so smudged… same goes for all CAPS and then those ugly bastard combinations like “mp”, “na”, “BU”… (all on first ss, second is so ugly it hurt my eyes).

I’ve never understood Linux haters whose main argument are smudged fonts (besides everyone has their own idea how fonts should look like), same goes for those LCD patches. Because I always had good results on Linux with a little tweaking and without BCI or any LCD patches. I belive good results can be made with what we have now (without any specialised patches) for linux desktop to look crisp.

Nice little operation your have going on, cheers.

By: Colin Zheng

Colin Zheng — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:32:17 +0000

Thanks, I saw it. Looks the same as what I had on CRUX though. Never mind, I’ve bid farewell to all serif fonts and anti-aliasing now. They simply look horrible on a 32″ LCD at the resolution of 1360×768, lol.

By: Colin Zheng

Colin Zheng — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:24:14 +0000

glad to know, you are very welcome
You could also email me the screenshot, when you have time for it. It’s not at all urgent for me

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:11:13 +0000

I use that script all the time, Colin. Thanks a million for that.

I’ll tack a second screenshot on the post. I don’t think images are allowed in comments.

By: Colin Zheng

Colin Zheng — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:57:48 +0000

Hi kmandla,

When I was using Arch, I was able to get xft+freetype to render the Latin Modern opentype fonts (almost) as perfectly as Xpdf renders Computer Modern.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm/fonts/opentype/public/lm/

When I switched to CRUX, somehow, even after rebuilding patched libxft, freetype2 with BCI, etc, I could never get the same nice-looking result anymore.

Since you have the patched versions, could you help me see how those odf fonts look on you X? (say lmroman10-regular.otf from that link)

P.S it’ll be good to have Pkgfile for freetype with BCI enabled.
P.P.S it’s good to see that the converter script is put to work