Font Antialiasing/Smoothing

How can I influence font antialiasing/smoothing?
All text appears to be smoothed for tube monitors but I want the method for flat screens.
Do java.awt.RenderingHints have any effect? If so, where can I set them since I don't use Graphics2D?

LCD text didn't quite make it into this release. Only greyscale.
As "mipa" noted, this isn't Java 2D, FX is a different API and implementation
from the ground up, so you can't use RenderingHints
-phil.

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Again, i have problems after a global upgrade.
I lost my gtk fonts antialiasing after upgrade. I lost the fonts quality of the programs that use gtk-engine like (firefox, thunderbird, etc). Here is the pacman log:
[08/04/06 15:15] synchronizing package lists
[08/04/06 15:15] starting full system upgrade
[08/04/06 15:42] upgraded kde-common (3.5.3-3 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:42] upgraded arts (1.5.3-2 -> 1.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded libgnomeui (2.14.1-1 -> 2.14.1-2)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.14.2-1 -> 2.14.3-1)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded eel (2.14.1-1 -> 2.14.3-1)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded libsoup (2.2.93-1 -> 2.2.96-1)
[08/04/06 15:43] installed libldap (2.3.25-2)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded evolution-data-server (1.6.2-2 -> 1.6.3-2)
[08/04/06 15:43] upgraded font-bh-ttf (1.0.0-2 -> 1.0.0-3)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gail (1.8.11-1 -> 1.8.11-2)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gnome-menus (2.14.0-1 -> 2.14.3-1)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gsfonts (8.11-3 -> 8.11-4)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gtk-qt-engine (0.7-1 -> 0.7-2)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gtk-xfce-engine (2.2.8-2 -> 2.2.8-3)
[08/04/06 15:44] upgraded gtkhtml (3.10.2-1 -> 3.10.3-1)
[08/04/06 15:45] upgraded jre (1_5_0_07-1 -> 1_5_0_07-2)
[08/04/06 15:45] upgraded kdelibs (3.5.3-3 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:45] upgraded kdebase (3.5.3-4 -> 3.5.4-2)
[08/04/06 15:46] upgraded kde-i18n-pt_br (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:46] upgraded kdeaccessibility (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:46] upgraded kdepim (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:47] upgraded kdemultimedia (3.5.3-2 -> 3.5.4-2)
[08/04/06 15:47] upgraded kdegames (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:47] upgraded kdeaddons (3.5.3-2 -> 3.5.4-1)
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[08/04/06 15:47] upgraded kdeartwork (3.5.3-2 -> 3.5.4-1)
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[08/04/06 15:48] upgraded kdeedu (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:48] upgraded kdegraphics (3.5.3-1 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:48] upgraded kdenetwork (3.5.3-4 -> 3.5.4-1)
[08/04/06 15:48] upgraded kdesdk (3.5.3-2 -> 3.5.4-1)
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[08/04/06 15:49] upgraded kdeutils (3.5.3-2 -> 3.5.4-1)
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why the maintainers dont test the pkgs (especialy the gtk app) before the refresh of the source mirrors? this is terrible boring...

JGC wrote:Update from an up-to-date mirror? The current version of kde-common is 3.5.4-2. As a workaround, you could go to the KDE font preferences, disable AA, apply and enable AA after that, it should work with non-KDE apps then too again.
i change the fonts style on the kcontrol to defaults and after that i set on the gtk-engine to (use my kde fonts in gtk app) and i restart the applications...now seems to be ok... thx

Font not smooth at printing

Hello all,
Need help!
I need to print some text from a swing application.
My problem is that on printing somme of the letters are not so smooth.
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iFlash

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[Solved] Help needed with getting fonts antialiased.

Greetings. I'm in the process of installingArch and I must be missing something as fonts just aren't antialiasing. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using the Fonts guide on the wiki. Here's the steps I did:
pacman -Rd libxft
yaourt -S fontconfig-lcd cairo-lcd
pacman -S libxft-lcd
Freetype is installed and I linked what I could to /etc/fonts/conf.d/:
10-autohint.conf 40-nonlatin.conf 65-nonlatin.conf
10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf 45-latin.conf 69-unifont.conf
20-fix-globaladvance.conf 49-sansserif.conf 70-no-bitmaps.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf 50-user.conf 80-delicious.conf
29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 51-local.conf 90-synthetic.conf
30-metric-aliases.conf 60-latin.conf README
30-urw-aliases.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf
I've tried changing settings in the KDE control center from "System Settings" to Enabled, started a new app. But no luck. I've created a basic ~/.fonts.conf that has antialiasing and hinting, logging out and logging in again to no avail. What got me was that fontconfig didn't install a 10-antialias.conf:
10-autohint.conf 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf 60-latin.conf
10-no-sub-pixel.conf 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf 65-fonts-persian.conf
10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf 30-metric-aliases.conf 65-khmer.conf
10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf 30-urw-aliases.conf 65-nonlatin.conf
10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf 40-nonlatin.conf 69-unifont.conf
10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf 45-latin.conf 70-no-bitmaps.conf
10-unhinted.conf 49-sansserif.conf 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
20-fix-globaladvance.conf 50-user.conf 80-delicious.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf 51-local.conf 90-synthetic.conf
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Last edited by Kisha (2009-03-05 01:18:41)

Dallied through the thread and didn't find anything. No luck thus far. Looks like this is a system-wide problem as KDM in not antialiasing. Change to a new ~/.fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
but the problem persists. Argh, this is tough. Did I possibly forget something?
Last edited by Kisha (2009-03-05 00:03:19)

[SOLVED] How to make small MS fonts antialiased?

I have the ttf-vista-fonts package installed because I like fonts like Calibri. However, at font sizes under 15 pt, that font (and one or two others in the set) gets rendered without antialiasing on, which really grates on the eyes considering that the other fonts on my system are antialiased at that size. To make matters horrendously worse, anytime a ligature occurs in the text ("tt", "fi", etc.), those letter pairs are antialiased! I copied the calibri TTF files over from a Windows installation and they are indeed the same files as on Windows, where it antialiases all the way down to 8 pt and possibly lower. From this I know it's something in my configuration.
What in my configuration is making this happen and what do I have to change to make this font antialias all the way down? Something in my fonts.conf maybe?
Last edited by jgott (2011-06-17 22:25:03)

thayer wrote:
Calibri has embedded bitmaps; this drove me nuts too. The easiest thing to do, depending on your current DE/WM, is to add the following lines to your ~/.fonts.conf

<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>
Check out my fonts.conf for more info. Websites like http://codinghorror.com used to look horrible before this fix.
Thank you, this quick little snippet totally did the trick. And actually, Coding Horror was one of the places where I was constantly bugged by this in the recent past.

Font antialiasing in Terminal with Dual Screen setup

I am reposting basically the same problem found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1472322 because I didn't find any solution browsing through the board.
Basically the problem is this:
1. Using only the laptop screen I have no problem. If I launch terminal with a single screen and then connect a second monitor I still have no problem.
2. If I then quit terminal and relaunch it it's like the font loses some antialiasing, it's much more thinner.
3. If I disconnect the second monitor it doesn't fix itself, I have to quit and relaunch terminal.

emeres wrote:
Does running the applications with DISPLAY variable help?
env DISPLAY=:0.1 pcsx
Setting the gaming monitor as primary output with xrandr might also help, if you get it running again. Take a look at dmesg about any warnings or errors and what modules are loaded.
I actually just started experimenting with DISPLAY, and it works how I want it to. I'm going to play with that a little bit (write scripts to launch my programs on that screen) to get the result I want. So, I think this issue is solved. Thanks.

Fonts not smooth

Dear all,
Is there a way to enhance the print-out fonts of CF Report
Builder? On the screen it is quite smooth (FlashPaper), but when I
do the printing (to printer or PDF) all characters are not that
smooth.
I use the same font (Arial) and font size on Crystal Report
or Microsoft Word, they give me smooth print-out. It tells me there
is no problem with my printer driver.
Is there a solution for this?
Thanks in advance
Keiko

Hi Keiko,
Try setting the "scale" property in your <cfdocument>
tag.. That may help...

Not all the fonts get smoothed

http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl … power.html
The headline of the article is not smoothed in my system, other text is smoothed. Why? My .fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>none</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
It's not the only text on Web I meet that is not smoothed. 98% of text has great smoothing, other 2% doesn't have smoothing and looks ugly. How to fix it?

Mr. Alex wrote:The headline of the article is not smoothed
I assume you're missing:

<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable">
<bool>false</bool>
</patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>

<match target="font">
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
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[Solved] IceWM can't show bitmap fonts without smoothing - how to fix?

http://cade.datamax.bg/away/icewm/
There are fonts in the menus - helvetica without smoothing. Kinda like Windows 3. I installed this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40619 to get helvetica but it's not in this package. At least the helvetica like on screenshots. How do I install this font in Arch?
Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-05-19 09:25:45)

The content of a directory is:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 4 16:58 20-fix-globaladvance.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Apr 4 17:02 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 4 17:02 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Apr 4 17:02 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 4 16:58 20-unhint-small-vera.conf -> ../conf.avail/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Apr 4 16:58 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 4 16:58 30-metric-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 4 16:58 30-urw-aliases.conf -> ../conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 4 16:58 40-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/40-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 4 16:58 45-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 4 16:58 49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Apr 4 16:58 50-user.conf -> ../conf.avail/50-user.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 4 16:58 51-local.conf -> ../conf.avail/51-local.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Apr 4 17:02 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 4 17:02 57-dejavu-sans.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 4 17:02 57-dejavu-serif.conf -> ../conf.avail/57-dejavu-serif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 4 16:58 60-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 4 16:58 65-fonts-persian.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-fonts-persian.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 4 16:58 65-nonlatin.conf -> ../conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 4 16:58 69-unifont.conf -> ../conf.avail/69-unifont.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 5 11:30 70-yes-bitmaps.conf -> ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 4 16:58 80-delicious.conf -> ../conf.avail/80-delicious.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 4 16:58 90-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 959 Nov 29 2009 README

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Hello,
the more I test, the more I love CP5.
But CP5 has a lot of issues, or it's me :-)
I create a fill-the-gap test. Everythings fine, but in preview the font in the dropdown menu or the short answer textfield is pixelized and not antialias
It's very ugly, please see the attached screenshot.
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Hi there
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Is it possible to enable/disable font antialiasing ONLY in LO?

I've got a question: Does the option marked in the picture with a red line work for you? I mean: Can you enable/disable LO font AA using this "tick" in Options/Libreoffice/View?
I'm asking because in my case it changes absolutely nothing and I have no idea whether it's my "fault" or a common problem (bug?) in LO. Can I somehow figure that out? If so, then how can i do it?
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How having the same font antialiasing as Photoshop ?

Hello,
I'm using Fireworks for a high-end project, and I really need a good antialiasing. Actually, I need the same antialiasing as Photoshop, which does a good work.
I tried several things with the "custom antialiasing", but I've never reached the quality of Photoshop. It is too soft, or too strong, or too pixelised.
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Frankly, I prefer doing all the stuff in Photoshop than writing some texts in Photoshop and then export it for Fireworks. It's just a waste of time...
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