Bug#481330: does not use all available font sizes

Marco d'Itri md at Linux.IT
Thu May 15 13:28:14 UTC 2008


On May 15, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> Have you configured fontconfig (dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config) to
> use bitmap fonts by default? By doing this I have the Neep and Neep Alt
> fonts available at all sizes.
Yes. But try to select sizes larger than 12 in gnome-terminal with a
non-C locale.

> In all cases, the rendering of bitmap fonts by freetype is often ugly,
> which is why they are deactivated by default in fontconfig. Even if you
> get this font to display, you might not be satisfied by the result.
When I can manage to persuade gnome-terminal to use the larger size
(setting LANG=C) it's displayed very well.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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