Why do fonts look so much better while using Opera web

drayco2000 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 126

browser when I'm working in Gentoo as opposed Redhat 9??
Is gentoo using a later and greater xfree?

shm · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:19 am Post subject:

Perhaps it's a newer freetype.

S_aIN_t · Guru Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 488 Location: Ottawa

the shared version of opera uses qt to to the rendering.. it could be better configured to display fonts the way you like.

it is possible that red hat has the static version installed. in that version the fonts always looked ugly to me.
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