Distorted Terminal Fonts?

I have the cleartype packages installed, and terminus.
using the autohinter conf file aswell
Last edited by kidawesome (2008-12-27 04:17:43)

Xyne wrote:This has happened to me before too on another system.
*subscribes to thread*
it only seems to happen with certain fonts (TTF).
It only happened to me using terminus (set the font in gnome-appearances)
it also happens on some websites... XKCD
Bumped it since i never found a solution (besides switching fonts, but TTF fonts work perfectly on my friends ubuntu install)

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I have an old application that has a text indicator requiring a non-proportionally spaced font. Years ago, it looked great with 11pt terminal font.
I recently tried to update that application and noticed that the text display has became very ugly, blocky and unreadable. (It seems the some other sizes (9 or 13) look much better, see image. Same in LabVIEW 8.0...8.5)
This is now under Windows XP and curiously enough, the font control panel does not even show a "terminal" font. Where then does LabVIEW get it from?
Anyway, I am trying to figure out if this problem is due to an upgrade of the OS or a change in the newer LabVIEW versions. Could it be that my old computer had a different "terminal" font installed?
Potential workaround: I noticed that "Lucida Console" is an evenly spaced font that look great at all sizes, so maybe I will switch to that one. Is this a stock OS font or did it possibly get installed wth some other program? I want to make sure things work in built applications.
Does anyone have more information on where the terminal font used by LabVIEW is located?
Message Edited by altenbach on 01-09-2008 05:56 PM
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Hi altenbach,
The "Terminal" font is a Windows font; however, it appears to be hidden by default on XP and does not show up in the Windows\Fonts folder. It is also not called terminal.fon. Try searching your computer for 8514oeme.fon or vgaoem.fon and see if you can locate these files. If you open them with the Windows Font Viewer, you will see that the title of the font is "Terminal". If you right-click and go to the file's properties, you can uncheck "Hidden" and then it should show up in your Fonts folder.
I don't know if the font has changed from one OS to another, so I can't say why it looks different in the same application on a Windows XP machine.
Message Edited by Donovan B on 01-10-2008 06:09 PM
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Terminal fonts turned ugly after last update

Terminal font Monospace 11 turned ugly after today's system update.
Before that, I even didn't use antialiasing, so nice and crisp they were.
Turning antialiasing on helps partially, but this font looks kinda blurry.
I am running Xfce4 under Arch64. Here is the fonts part from xorg.conf:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
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EndSection
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Blur terminal font...

Hi,
I am a bit having trouble with my terminal font. I used to have a problem related with fonts and firefox but had it resolved. Here are the screenshots between the monaco and bitstream vera sans mono font:
Monaco looks really nice while Bitstream Vera Sans Mono seems blur. This is what I have for my .Xdefaults:
URxvt*font: xft:Monaco:size=7.5
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Monaco:size=7.5
and
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URxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
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Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
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Any help appreciated. Thanks!

jasonwryan wrote:
dsdeiz wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:Bitstream Vera works fine in my terminals. Do you have a .fonts.conf?
I don't think I have one. Mind sharing yours?
Probably best if you create your own: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
Look at subpixel rendering and some of the troubleshooting sections. Post back if you have difficulties with it.
I checked the Font Configuration wiki regarding subpixel rendering. I then did the one posted there which was:
# cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
Doesn't look any different to me though:
I also have these in my /etc/fonts/conf.d directory:
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20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
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20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
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Pickyfont - change your terminal font on the fly

While I'm getting older my eyes are too. I looked for some way to change the
terminal font on the fly, like you can do with 'setfont' in the VT. I found
none, so I came up with this, nothing fancy but quite handy.
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Last edited by dmz (2010-08-22 19:34:31)

thayer wrote:
Handy tool, dmz thanks.
In my case I often specify both *font and *boldFont values in my Xdefaults since terminus doesn't include bold letters at the smaller sizes.
Pickyfont doesn't appear to set/change the boldFont if it was previously specified.
I found a different escape sequence to switch fonts at runtime:
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printf "\033]710;%s\007" "${font}"
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See http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt- … 00886.html for a urxvt perl extension.
Edit: it all in man 7 urxvt
XTerm Operating System Commands
"ESC ] Ps;Pt ST"
Ps = 50 Set fontset to Pt, with the following special values of Pt (rxvt) #+n change up n #-n change down n if n is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used empty change to font0 n change to font n
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Ps = 711 Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
Ps = 712 Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
Ps = 713 Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).
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Sorry if this is fairly easy to do... I'm relatively new to Illustrator and I haven't been able to find a forum thread or video tutorial or anything on Google based on my search criteria in several weeks of searching.
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