October 14, 2009
Chromium + Freetype-Freeworld: Profit! Last week I was wondering how to fix the font uglyness of Chromium in Fedora 11, and the solution came from identi.ca: install freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion. Basically it’s Freetype with subpixel rendering enabled, as states the package information: This version is compiled with the patented bytecode interpreter and subpixel rendering enabled. It transparently overrides the system library using ld.so.conf.d. Why it’s not this Freetype version included in Fedora 11 by default? I’m not sure, but seems it’s just because patent problems, at least in USA (AFAIK software patents aren’t an issue in Europe, by now).

Chromium + Freetype-Freeworld: Profit!

Last week I was wondering how to fix the font uglyness of Chromium in Fedora 11, and the solution came from identi.ca: install freetype-freeworld from RPM Fusion.

Basically it’s Freetype with subpixel rendering enabled, as states the package information:

This version is compiled with the patented bytecode interpreter and subpixel rendering enabled. It transparently overrides the system library using ld.so.conf.d.

Why it’s not this Freetype version included in Fedora 11 by default? I’m not sure, but seems it’s just because patent problems, at least in USA (AFAIK software patents aren’t an issue in Europe, by now).

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October 6, 2009
Fedora Packages for Chromium

May be there’s more people like me, without the time (or the interest) to try out Chromium (the open source counterpart of Google Chrome).

Moreover, if you’re lazy too, then Tom Callaway’s packages for Fedora are your only choice.

My final motivation was testing ln.usebox.net, because I developed it with Firefox 3.5, and totally forgot to test other browsers. By chance I have Chromium in my Ubuntu at work, so I tried it. Oh man, it’s fast.

The only downside is the ugly font rendering (at least in Fedora), that seems to ignore my desktop setting (which is subpixel smoothing, but Chromium seems to use best shapes… that looks blurry to my eyes).

May be you know hot to fix this little annoyance, although seems a problem related to Fedora’s Freetype version. Don’t be shy, and share your knowledge in a comment. Thank you.

by jjm on 10:21pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPorZyCIK5t
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Filed under: Fedora Chromium Font rendering Freetype