Freetype hinting mode
Posted: 2019-04-17 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: dejavu, font, freetype, hinting, monospace Leave a commentI just upgraded to -current, which should become Slackware 15.0 at some point. I immediately noticed that hinting was awful. I tried changing the settings in Xfce, but there was no improvement. Finally, I realised that it should be set up elsewhere.
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Chrome broken fonts
Posted: 2017-08-22 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: chromium, font, google chrome, hinting, rendering Leave a commentI recently upgraded to Google Chrome 60.0.3112, using the script in Slackware 14.2 /extra. I immediatelly noticed a problem with fonts rendering, which affected not only web sites, but the browser itself. The same problem exists in Alien Bob’s Chromium package, version 60.3112.78.
Very annoying:
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WPS Office
Posted: 2016-12-28 Filed under: office | Tags: font, impress, MT Extra, office, Presentation, Spreadsheets, WPS Office, writer 1 CommentWith the latest SlackBuilds.org update, WPS Office was added to the repository. I decided to give it a try, as I have never been too happy with Impress.
The SlackBuild script just repackages the binaries provided from upstream. So far, the office suite seems amazingly good. Really. The interface is user-friendly, it is very fast and offers good compatibility with the file formats of MS Office. Upon start, a warning window appeared, complaining about a missing font:
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Cyrillic in the XMMS playlist
Posted: 2015-04-04 Filed under: desktop, media | Tags: cp1251, cyrillic, encoding, font, terminus, xmms Leave a commentIn the XMMS playlist, the default font for GTK1 does not display correctly Cyrillic file names. A commonly used encoding for Cyrillic text is CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »
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