On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:26:53AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
It already is, in Rawhide. Upgrade an F13 machine to Rawhide and
you'll
see noticeably different font rendering.
See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532
(Though it's really not as simple as that story makes it seem,
which is
why we didn't do it for F13. Bytecode interpreting only helps fonts
which are actually designed with bytecode interpreting in mind. Some of
the fonts we use have been designed more with the use of autohinting in
mind, and look worse if you just use bytecode interpreting everywhere. I
believe the idea for F14 is to try and determine which fonts should use
which method in some way.)
Yeah. If you look at the "with bytecode" and "without bytecode"
attachments
in the above bug, you'll see Inconsolata become very ugly.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences