0 [Opensuse 12.1] How To Improve Font Rendering

openSUSE 12.1 is one of the best versions of openSUSE I ever tried. Other than the printer issue that I am facing with it, everything else is working like a charm. One of the few issues I had with openSUSE 12.1 was the font rendering. I seem to have found a solution to that problem also. The solution may not be as nice as the distro is, but it worked for me.

opensuse 12.1 freetype-freeword

So if you are running openSUSE 12.1, here is how you can install freetype-freeword font render engine to make your fonts look as great as they are. This is how I have done it, there may be a better easier way to do it, and since I am not a seasoned openSUSE user, bare with me. Since the freetype-freeword is not in openSUSE's repositories (search resulted in no result), I found a work-around.

Open the terminal change use to root:
su -

Then change directory:
cd /etc/zypp/repos.d/

Then run this command to download and add repository:
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Lemonzest/RedHat_RHEL-6/home:Lemonzest.repo

Once added run this command to install the packages
zypper install freetype-freeworld

Now under the Advanced Settings section change the hinting to slight or non and antialising to rgba.

Before After

Reboot your system and you will have pixel perfect font rendering.

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