Windows typography reproduction

[Art Alexion]

alleister wrote:

>the reason font display sucks so bad on linux is that apple likes to
>profit from the opensource scene but not  to share... they have patents
>on the way ttf fonts are rendered in a bearable fashion.
>to get non-ugly font display you have to switch on the patented code in
>the ttf server and recompile it... 
>

>it is strange however, i remember fonts where ok in suse 7.3
>
>i would even prefer bitmap fonts over the ttf situation right now. it
>is the reason i boot to windows for serious work... writing longer
>sourcecode just hurts my eyes to much on linux right now.
>  
>
Ubuntu is my first new distro in a while.  My prior (Red Hat) distros 
had limited support for using true type at all.  Type 1 and Type 2 
PostScript fonts were preferred.  So far, I haven't found any PostScript 
fonts in my Ubuntu installation.

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