[Since people still use some tired font FUD against Linux]
3 Examples of Bad Microsoft Word Typography
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| From the makers of Arial, here are three examples of bad typography in
| Microsoft Word. Bad typesetting in Word finds its way into résumés, business
| plans, research papers, government documents, even published books. These
| small inconsistencies and imperfections may be un-noticible in small doses,
| but paragraph-after-paragraph they stack up—resulting in ugly,
| visually-incohesive documents. Word isn’t for professional typography work,
| but that’s no excuse for these typography sins.
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http://robgoodlatte.com/2007/07/24/3-examples-of-bad-microsoft-word-typography/
Related:
Visual comparison of major OS's font rendering
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| Personally I don't like ClearType at all. And looking at it
| gives me headaches. Also, Linux's myth of bad font rendering
| is finally over.
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http://mywheel.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/08/visual-comparison-of-major-oss-font-rendering/
Improving Linux font rasterization?
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| While the discussion continues it looks like that in the long term the major
| toolkits have to get together to talk about implementing the mentioned
| techniques. Or, as suggested by David, a initiative dedicated to bringing
| patches upstream is launched. It could try to work with upstream on the one
| hand, but with the distributors on the other hand - if the users see the
| results because the distributions include the patches it might help
| influencing the decision of upstream.
| But there is no way of reaching perfect font rasterization with changes in
| FreeType only.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/improving-linux-font-rasterization/
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