Windows typography reproduction

[Horst Schlonz]

Am Mittwoch, den 08.12.2004, 14:25 -0500 schrieb alleister:
> 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... i tried it a couple of times
> following instructions on how to do it but failed every time.

you are talking about the bytecode interpreter mentioned here?
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

is this bytecode interpreter turned on or off in ubuntu?

> i feel like you... the antialiased fonts are giving me headache because
> they are difficult to read, but nonantialiased they look so broken that
> they aren't bearable.

yes, fonts in ubuntu are sucking bad.

> 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.

how can i get those bitmap fonts?