[Typo3-debian] Ugly fonts, hinting trouble?

[Bas v.d. Wiel]

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Hello list,
Just recently I noticed a major difference in GIFBUILDER
font-rendering between my SUSE test box (Enterprise Server) and my
Debian Sarge soon-to-be-production server. On the SUSE-box all
graphical headers render just great, with proper spacing between
glyphs and no ugly artefacts.

On the Sarge box though, things are incredibly ugly. I tried
recompiling Freetype 2 from source, overwriting the already installed
libs. Sadly this didn't help at all. I did the following after
enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freshly downloaded source:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

After this I rebooted the box just to be sure everything gets
re-initialized. I cleared TYPO3's FE cache, reloaded the page in
question and saw absolutely no change whatsoever.

I did notice some files in /etc/fonts that look like they should
affect Freetype somehow. I created a local.conf file and filled that
with examples from around the web that should turn antialiasing and
hinting on and off. Yet no matter what I do, nothing changes at all..

I haven't been able to find anything online to help me solve this. All
documents I found deal with font rendering in X but that's not what
I'm looking for. I don't even have X installed on this box.

Could someone here please point me in the right direction for a
solution to this problem? I spent a whole afternoon researching this
and the fact that nothing whatsoever changes at all is getting on my
nerves.. I must be doing something wrong..

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Bas

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