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Year after year I was very impressed with the progress made ​​by linux distributions to render fonts on the desktop, I think it is a very important aspect for a cleaner and more pleasant aspect of the system. E 'possible with AmigaOS have the option for font rendering?
In linux as far as I know you can choose between monochrome, best shapes, best contrast, subpixel smoothing.
I'm beginning to appreciate more and more AmigaOS 4 but did not find "clean" font on the screen ....

I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject of fonts, but here goes:

If you run Prefs/Font, you will see (down the bottom) all the fonts that are used in the system, on the Workbench, etc. If you click on any of those file gadgets, you will be able to choose from all the fonts stored in the system, with different sizes. You won't see all the fine controls that you get in Linux or on a Mac DTP program.

Most applications allow you to choose the font that is used for their own displays. Have a look in the menu, sometimes under "Settings".

You can import fonts from other places. Here I am out of my depth, so I'll leave it to someone else to explain what sort of fonts you can use and where on the Net to get them, but I think that any TrueType font can be used. There may be other types that you can use.

lorenko wrote:Year after year I was very impressed with the progress made ​​by linux distributions to render fonts on the desktop, I think it is a very important aspect for a cleaner and more pleasant aspect of the system. E 'possible with AmigaOS have the option for font rendering? ....

You can try TYPEMANAGER (SYS:System) it has options to change ttf attribs. (hinter is one of them).

Thanks,
good but not enought, the fonts don't look very well or clean on LCD monitor

lorenko wrote:Thanks,
good but not enought, the fonts don't look very well or clean on LCD monitor

Not sure what you mean, for me they look quite nice. But maybe I'm not discerning enough.

Maybe you could make a screen shot of a part of a Linux desktop and a part of your WB, pointing out the differences you are talking about? Using the same fonts, of course.

Oh, BTW, you have noticed the Antialiasing checkbox in Prefs/Font, right?

Best regards,

Niels

nbache wrote:

lorenko wrote:Thanks,
good but not enought, the fonts don't look very well or clean on LCD monitor

Not sure what you mean, for me they look quite nice. But maybe I'm not discerning enough.

Maybe you could make a screen shot of a part of a Linux desktop and a part of your WB, pointing out the differences you are talking about? Using the same fonts, of course.

Ok I'll do it on the same monitor this evening ...
thx

Ok this is a snapshot, I can't explain but amiga side seems somehow dirty

lorenko wrote:Ok this is a snapshot, I can't explain but amiga side seems somehow dirty

It's quite hard to compare those two. Partly because you have different backgrounds, but mostly because you use a narrower font on the Amiga than on Linux. You should try again with the same background image and the same font settings.

And what about the antialiasing? Was that selected on the Amiga side?

Best regards,

Niels

nbache wrote:

lorenko wrote:Ok this is a snapshot, I can't explain but amiga side seems somehow dirty

It's quite hard to compare those two. Partly because you have different backgrounds, but mostly because you use a narrower font on the Amiga than on Linux. You should try again with the same background image and the same font settings.

And what about the antialiasing? Was that selected on the Amiga side?

Yes is selected.
I was tired because I worked until 21.30, so the snapshot isn't right. Not same background nor fonts.
But I'm thinking the problem is the resolution, the monitor is a Iiyama and on linux supports a best resolution. On amiga maximum M9 resolution is 1680x1050
in linux 1600x1200
Sorry for stressing you

@lorenko

If you're saying that you have the same font selected in both Linux and OS4, then the picture clearly shows that your problem is the resolution. Or the screenmode aspect. Is your iiyama a widescreen monitor? If so, are you sure you have selected a widescreen screenmode for your OS4 Workbench?

On amiga maximum M9 resolution is 1680x1050. in linux 1600x1200

Not true. On my previous Sam I used to run OS4 in 1600x1200 with the M9 and a 20" HP monitor (not widescreen). The trick is to put "+RB" to the mode name in the Radeon's icon tooltypes, as this guide says on page 16:
http://www.ngi-info.com/downloads/Amiga ... nglish.pdf