bad fonts since OS upgrade

[Brian J. Tarricone]

this isn't really a solution, but something similar - when i switched 
from xfree86 to the x.org server, my default font, 'Luxi Sans' looked 
_terrible_  i ended up switching to one of the bitstream vera fonts, as 
i was unable to find a fix for this.  not sure if this might be related 
to your problem.

	-brian

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, synaptical wrote:

> i know it kind of looks that way, but that appears to have more to do with the rendering and anti-aliasing than the size. if you'll notice, the size of the fonts in the body-text of the xfce4 version is actually a little larger than in the other screen. and changing the dpi value doesn't help the spindliness, it only makes the fonts bigger, not "fatter" and more cleanly rendered. 
> 
> i should also mention that i had this same problem when switching from slackware 9 to 9.1, but what i did to solve it then was remove xfree86 with swaret (a package management system, for those who don't use slack) and compile it from source, and then remove and reinstall xfce4, either from the swaret system or from the source files. that worked perfectly, with no change in font size or any other setting required. 
> 
> so maybe that tells me it's futile to try to fix this by changing configurartion file options, but i thought i might be able to tweak something just enough to make the difference. but the problem seems to be "deeper" than that, and now the "removing/reinstalling" trick doesn't work in arch or slack 10. i'm trying to install freetype 1 and then 2 again, and then remove 2 and recompile it as in the Net Llama's "Linux StepbyStep" pages, but i'm having weird errors in arch installing freetype 1. 
> 
> any other ideas appreciated in the meantime. :) 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:59:04 +0200
> From: Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: bad fonts since OS upgrade
> To: synaptical at linuxquestions.net, XFCE general discussion list
> 	<xfce at xfce.org>
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> 
> I may be mistaken, but wouldn't this be a matter of simply increasing 
> the font size a little?
> 
> 
> synaptical wrote:
> > 
> > http://datadump.homelinux.com/fontcomp/yahoo_gnome.png
> > http://datadump.homelinux.com/fontcomp/yahoo_xfce4.png
> 
> 
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