Some thoughts…
- Published January 25th, 2006 in Tech Comment, Ubuntu
Here’s two different things that I find rather opportune to talk about: sub-pixel rendering, following Joel’s thoughts on the subject, and the obvious evidence of why Chitika advertising is still not there yet.
As for the first one, I think that Joel’s article was insightful but it doesn’t explain how you can get sub-pixel hinting activated! If you’re one of those lucky guys who are using Ubuntu or Debian, then let me tell you that you just have to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig and make sure you select Autohinter when prompted. Couldn’t be easier!
Regardind the latter subject, it came to me when I tried accessing some websites that have Chitika adversiting (including this very own blog). One of the servers was down so all the page was hanged waiting for the server. Eventually, the HTTP request would timeout before the ad server which is absolute nonsense. Google’s AdSense does not behave like this.
wow, i’m quite impressed with the “new” font rendering. I had to tweak some stuff though: I noticed a major quality bump after changing the settings on GNOME Font Manager (you know, the control panel applet to control the font appearance) to SubPixel(LCD) smoothing and Full hinting.
Thanks for your tip :-)
hi, thanks fot the tip, it looks a lot better, here tested in kde.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig in debian won’t configure Autohinting for ya.
you need to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config to accomplish that