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Technique used by video cards to minimize stair-step edge in order to improve quality.

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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
richzilla
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How to get Calibri font to display nicely

I have Calibri installed because it's the default font for M$ Office and so many of my clients send me documents using this font. But it displays without anti-aliasing which is horrible. It's like being on a Windoze machine again :-O It only seems…
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Setting different subpixel rendering on different monitors

I am using dual monitors, one of them rotated by 90 degrees. Font antialising does not look right in the rotated monitor (i.e., there are rainbow borders around characters). I believe this is because X is using the same subpixel rendering order on…
scaramouche
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Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04

It seems that full font hinting doesn't work in 18.04. Due to low resolution laptop screens, I prefer the fonts with full hinting and grayscale antialiasing. Changing the font hinting from medium to full seem to have no effect whatsoever. Here's how…
M. Farouk
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Green border around fonts in GIMP

I have a problem in the way text appears in GIMP, I think its related to hinting or anti-aliasing but I have no idea about the cause nor the solution for it.
Yusuf Mohammed
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Disabling the anti-aliasing for a specific font with user's fonts.conf

Purpose: I am trying to disable anti-aliasing via ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf for a specific font, but so far without success. If my understanding is correct, then the cause is, that the system wide configuration takes precedence over my own…
Olaf Rogalsky
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Font rendering issue (antialiasing)

There is a significant change on font rendering between. On Ubuntu version 22.04 was perfect as always but on version 24 is not. On the right is version 22 and on the left 24. Icons look the same, but if you take a look at "Recent" you will…
Martin
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How do I turn off font pixel antialiasing only in Terminal?

For programming, I like to turn off font antialiasing (i.e. select the Monochrome option) because it makes the terminal text look a lot sharper at smaller font sizes. But then everything in the web browser looks worse. Is there a way to have the…
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Compiz antialiasing with xserver-xorg-video-radeon?

Window previews are ugly on my computer: Is there any solution to make them smooth? BTW window previews in Metacity with composition enabled (/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager) are looking much better than in Compiz. I am using the open…
Evgeniy Kirov
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Bad anti-aliasing in some applications

There was an update a few weeks ago that seemed to mess with anti-aliasing in some applications. Firefox, Thunderbird, and the text in some apps such as Mousepad and Leafpad (but not the rest of the window) are affected, whereas Chrome and…
Matty
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How to switch on sub-pixel anti-aliasing for fonts?

In Fedora 16 (gnome) I did it without any problems. But in Ubuntu 11.10(gnome) in System Settings -> Appearance I can't see any tab for fonts settings.
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IntelliJ Bad Font Rendering

I've recently installed IntelliJ on my Ubuntu system and realized that the font I want to normally use Monaco doesn't render properly in IntelliJ. So, the problem was slightly fixed from this post however the editor would still not render properly…
Mazen K.
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Per-monitor font hinting

I have two displays out of which one is rotated to be vertical. Is there a way to set font hinting to be VRGB on vertical display and RGB for horizontal display?
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Metacity/Compiz antialias?

Have Ubuntu developers considered adding antialas to a window manager(metacity) in Ubuntu 11.04? If there is coming Unity and Compiz is needed, why not to add this feature to corners of windows manager?
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How to activate LibreOffice anti-aliasing?

LibreOffice looks terrible compared to the rest of my OS and other text applications, such as MS Word. It looks like it has no anti-aliasing, how can I activate it? Here's a screenshot of what it looks like: I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if that helps.
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