New font configuration. Are they better?

[pnunn]

Thats got it..

Anyone who doesn't do this has rocks in their head, the font rendering is SO much better. Thank you for your patience bra|10n.

One thing I did find is that I had to set the dpi to 96 (as I have it forced in my fonts) rather than the reported 144. I found I have an issue with the twin nvidia monitor setup in that if I don't force the font, when I connect the second monitor the fonts become huge for some reason (there fine on the laptop monitor alone).

Thanks again.

Peter.

[bra|10n]

You're welcome.
Glad you can see a noticable improvement.

While I haven't tried, reverting to the default font configuration should be just a matter of removing the installed infinality files I presume.

[SteveRiley]

Wow, what a difference. Good find!

[bra|10n]

The default setting is autohint=false. For those who wish to change this setting it can be found in /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf.

[SteveRiley]

Yeah, saw that. I like how Infinality changes the appearances of fonts on my T520, with its 1920 x 1080 LCD. But on my X1, with its lower resolution 1366 x 768 panel, I prefer the default font appearance.

This is one of those things that is probably highly subjective, of course

[bra|10n]

I have a low res of 1366x768 here and found the 'best' settings for me on the acer are,

force_autohint=true
dpi=96
font_weight="10 20 40 20 10", not listed but an option nevertheless...

[SteveRiley]

Mind posting a screenshot?

[bra|10n]

No problem, but compression cruels the shot. Best to view the full size link...



Full size

[SteveRiley]

Hey, nice... I'll give it a try again on my X1, using your settings.

[verndog]

Lets start fresh...

Extract freetype-infinality-2.4.9-20120403_02-x86_64.tar.bz2 into an empty folder.

Look for the following files,



So move infinality-settings.sh and freetype-infinality.sh into /etc/profile_d/.

Open freetype-infinality.sh and delete its contents and paste the following into the file;

PRELOAD=1; if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/fonts ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/fonts; fi; A1=`arch`; A2=x86_64; if [ "${A1:0:1}" = "${A2:0:1}" -a ! "$PRELOAD" = "0" ]; then ADDED=`/bin/echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6" | wc -l`; if [ "$ADDED" = "0" ]; then export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6:$LD_PRELOAD ; fi; fi

Save and close.

Now copy fontconfig-infinality-1-20111223_2.tar.bz2 to /etc/fonts and extract the files. Now delete fontconfig-infinality-1-20111223_2.tar.bz2. Open /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf in kate and set your dpi (line 34). Save and close.

Run the following in a terminal,

. /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh

Logout and back in.

A couple of things. Change "/etc/profile_d/" to "/etc/profile.d/".

Also What your deleting and then adding in file "freetype-infinality.sh" are identical.

PRELOAD=1; if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/fonts ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/fonts; fi; A1=`arch`; A2=x86_64; if [ "${A1:0:1}" = "${A2:0:1}" -a ! "$PRELOAD" = "0" ]; then ADDED=`/bin/echo $LD_PRELOAD | grep "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6" | wc -l`; if [ "$ADDED" = "0" ]; then export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6:$LD_PRELOAD ; fi; fi

Edit: After installing and rebooting, it appears to make a big difference. I need to adjust the fonts size, but the clarity is noticeable. I have used Infinality fonts before in my Fedora installs. First time using Kubuntu. thanks.