Re: [ft] controlling the "degree" of anti-aliasing

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I moved recently from SuSE10.0 (freetype2-2.1.10-4) to SuSE10.3
> (freetype2-2.3.5 with sub-pixel enabled), and the rendering of fonts
> (e.g. Arial) appears to have changed: out of the box, the letters
> appear taller and thinner in 2.3.5. After trying various things, I
> found that I get closest to the 10.0 appearance when I turn hinting
> off in my ~/.fonts.conf. [...]
>
> Is there any way to control the degree of anti-aliasing via
> .fonts.conf, or is this built into the code?

Please do two things:

  . Look up both the freetype and freetype-devel mailing lists; this
    question comes again and again.

  . We are not the fontconfig people.  Contact a fontconfig mailing
    list for more details how to handle these issues.


   Werner