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====How to Improve Font Rendering====

==Firefox==
~If the fonts appear blocky/pixelated changing a script will improve the rendering - this applies to [[Puppy526 Puppy 5.28]].
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~Edit the file ##/etc/fonts/local.config## to include the following code
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~%%(language-ref)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<!--  Enable sub-pixel rendering -->
   <match target="font">
	  <test qual="all" name="rgba">
		 <const>unknown</const>
	  </test>
	  <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
   </match>

<!-- suggested by 'upnorth' http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54294&start=15
 Reject bitmap fonts -->
 <selectfont>
  <rejectfont>
   <pattern>
	 <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
   </pattern>
  </rejectfont>
 </selectfont>
</fontconfig>
%%
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~Often this is just case of removing two comment tags (##<!-- -->##)

==Opera==
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=491005#491005 Opera Font config post]]

==Related Webpages==
~[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72685 Improve font rendering version2 thread]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61310 Improve font and graphic rendering version1 thread]]
~[[WikiPedia:Pixelation]]

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