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Description
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I have always used xterm with the following font as my
terminal window:
"-b&h-lucida sans typewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-72-72-M-70-iso8859-1"
it is beautiful. When I try to use the JDS terminal app
I can't find any font close to this. For example, if I try the
JDS Lucida Sans Typewriter font, it looks really poor.
If I try the default mono spaced font it also looks poor.
I'm attaching two screen shots to illustrate this.
fontsSnapshot.rs shows the xterm above, and the JDS
terminal below. Both with Lucida Sans Typewriter.
As you can see the xterm is much, much more
readable.
fontsMagSnapshot.rs is a magnified portion of the screen.
See how 'w' and 'm' look terrible in the JDS terminal,
and overall the font is ragged and poorly proportioned.
I'm told the font I like is an F3 font that has been EOL'd
and is not picked up by JDS. The fonts JDS use are T1
and TT fonts. This would be fine if the new fonts didn't
look so terrible.
Oh, and yes, anti-aliasing is turned off for this test.
The JDS font looks equally bad with ant-aliasing on --
it's just fuzzier.
Nobody has been able to explain why the new fonts look
so poor. Do we have poor quality font definitions? Is
the font rendering busted? Are T1 and TT so technically
inferior to F3 that they can't define a high quality
fixed width font?
Hardware: SunBlade 1500, 1.5GB RAM, Type 6 USB Keyboard
Operating System: Solaris 10 s10_63 SPARC
JDS Version: JDS 3 build15B
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