flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:42:25 +0200, Peter KÃhlmann wrote:
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>> Hadron Quark wrote:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> __/ [ Gubo Dangle ] on Monday 04 September 2006 14:50 \__
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz expressed precisely :
>>>>>> Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ...except you have to use Microsoft's Fonts to get such a result in
>>>>> Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm...
>>>>
>>>> That's an old myth.
>>>>
>>>> Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Currently, Linux Libertine consists of more than 1,750 glyphs for
>>>> | Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets and their derivatives, including
>>>> | ligatures and kerning tables. Some work remains to be done on the
>>>> | italics, but the roman or ordinary weight is complete, as well as the
>>>> | bold and underlined weights. A set of small caps is in development, and
>>>> | a grotesque or sans serif font (one without serifs) is planned, but not
>>>> | yet available.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://applications.linux.com/applications/06/08/18/1847218.shtml?tid=13&tid=96
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As well as a fallacy, whose root is the inability to grasp a fonts
>>>> monopoly.
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://news.com.com/Microsofts+forgotten+monopoly/2010-1032_3-6085417.html
>>>
>>> Nearly all the HOWTOs insist on using the MS TT Fonts to get the Linux
>>> desktop looking nice.
>>
>> Nope, to get the rendering of web pages similar
My browser is on my desktop you loon.
>> Which was (and is) the intention why MS released those fonts to be used
>> freely
>> On the desktop I stay away from TTF font packages.
Why? Because they're MS ones? LOL. Mad as a hatter.
>>
>>> Fortunately, after days of screwing around with
>>> about 5 system font directories (using sudo in the bash shell, Rick),
>>> personal font directories, dodgy antialiasing, kerning hints, font
>>> caches etc, Automatix came out which set up Ubuntu just right. That
>>> Automatix guy deserves a medal IMO : with that one program he made
>>> getting Ubuntu to work almost easy - obliterating all the arrogant, RTFM
>>> merchants and their cache of hidden "Guru Magic" in one. One day I hope
>>> to see the phrase "you're an idiot, it works for me" pass into obscurity.
>>
>> Well, you *are* an idiot. It works for me without any sweat
Yes. And so is the guy who created Automatix, and the one who create
EasyUbuntu. All idiots. What are they thinking. When *You*, the great
Petulant Kohlkopf, already provide such a great help & advocacy service.
No wonder you're in everyones killfile with Mark "Foot In Mouth" Kent.
>
> You know absolutely nothing about font rendering Peter KÃhlmann.
He appears to know nothing about anything at all. He posts wild guesses and
too hurried google results. As wrong as frequently as Mark Schestowitz.
>
> You prove it right here:
>
Well spotted. Hilarious. But being German, Peter will just stomp around
and make even louder assertive noises rather than admit he was talking
through his backside again.
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> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/82e012c465a...
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> "You mean, you deliberately selected different fonts/fontsizes?
> And deselected Anti-aliasing too for KDE?
> Figures, after all you are one of the most dishonest widiots around here"
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> Yet over here, he claims anti-aliasing has no effect on screen shots:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/628d7bbe0fe...
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> " BTW, it is so simple to test for yourself.
> Do a screen-shot of a text. Now disable anti-aliasing
> Do again screen-shot of same text.
> Compare both. They are exactly the same"
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