fonts in ubu sucking, was: Windows typography reproduction

[Noah Dain]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:16:21 -0500, Travis Newman
<panickedthumb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> 
> 
> >>I do find that fonts on my Ubuntu boxes are far worse than in Fedora
> >>Core. Why is that, when they're both Linux? FC1 isn't using Xorg, it's
> >>still on XFree86, and it's far superior in default look.
> >
> >
> > That's one of the things I noticed when I left Windows for Linux, the
> > fonts didn't look very 'crips'/neat/clear/sharp.
> > I got used to it now, but I would not mind understanding the exact
> > technical reason why it is  like this, and why it is not fixed, and if
> > there is hope that we will some day have cleaner/cripser fonts.
> >
> >
> > Vince, curious....
> >
> >
> > 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4456
> 
> That link will fix things up for you :)
> 
> 
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oh, these fonts r00l now.

fix posted here for posterity (shamlessly ripped from ubu-forums link above):

~/.fonts.conf

### start ###

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

### end ###

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Noah Dain