Hi!

I'm wondering about the decreased font display quality in my SuSE Linux 10.0 OSS. In 9.3, I was just enthusiastic about the clear type display, especially of small sizes font. Just to make it clear: I'm not talking about ClearType, I have enabled that. It has to do with the display of my font for example within OpenOffice. In SuSE Linux 9.3, my font display is as when you would scan a large example of written text and would decrease the size of the image - it's the best your monitor can display! Now in SuSE 10 my (and only these) imported fonts are deformed! The same imported fonts had been displayed fine within 9.3! Could this anything have to do with the fact that Suse 10 is an opensource system and thus it could have a lack of proprietary display technology?

Does anyone have the same experiences?

Thanx.

There is no proprietary display stuff in any Suse releases and I am sure there is no relation to Suse 10 being opensource (previous versions were opensource too). I don't know what may have changed to cause those problems for you.

And I thought I was the only one that had noticed this. Glad to see I'm not alone. But I'm using the retail version of SuSE 10.0, so it's not an OSS issue. I find the desktop fonts slightly "grittier" than in 9.3. Not much but enough to be disappointing. And I agree about Open Office. To my eye the screen font rendering is far inferior to 9.3.

And has anyone else noticed that the font rendering utility in the Gnome control centre is broken? Try the 4 choices. No difference at all.

Come on Novell, wake up! Put your specs on and do better in future.

The problem occurs especially when using imported fonts. They are the same way badly displayed as they are with Windows 98. I was very lucky to see the better font display in SuSE 9.3, and are now deflated about the display in SuSE 10.0. For example, the height of characters varies. By the way, is there no way to get image attachments to this post? I created especially for this post two comparison images.

You can't post images on this site, but you can at www.imageshack.us and then post the links here.