Hi,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 17:22, Ryan Pugatchrpug@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Should rpm -qi freetype show both my built version and the other one as well?
It shows the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions, that's why it shows it twice...
I don't remember how I ended up with the slightly older verison, but I can try updating.
You should probably do that, although it will probably not change anything...
There's got to be some setting I'm missing that makes the fonts look just a bit better, because I think they still look rough.
Yes, there is the font rendering settings (monochrome/best shapes/best contrast/subpixel smoothing [LCD]), and smoothing, hinting and subpixel order advanced settings.
You can set those by running the "gnome-font-properties" program (included in the "control-center" RPM).
It's possible to do those settings manually by tweaking /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf, but it's a XML file with arcane syntax...
You can try to remove any ~/.fonts.conf if you have any and see if that makes a difference.
HTH, Filipe