PPA for Users for improved text on LCD screens

PPA description

Currently, as far as I can tell, only PDF viewers need to be patched for subpixel rendering.

Patched packages:

Poppler with LCD filtering and slight hinting.
Cairo with LCD filtering API exposed.
Evince.

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:improved-lcd-filtering/ppa to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:improved-lcd-filtering/ppa
sudo apt update
        
Technical details about this PPA

This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources.

Display sources.list entries for:
deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/improved-lcd-filtering/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/improved-lcd-filtering/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
Signing key:
1024R/F479B8B658F2B799F29840076027DDF43D9F44E9 (What is this?)
Fingerprint:
F479B8B658F2B799F29840076027DDF43D9F44E9

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Users for improved text on LCD screens.

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Overview of published packages

119 of 19 results
Package Version Uploaded by
cairo 1.10.2-2ubuntu6ppa3 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.10.2-2ubuntu1ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.8.10-4ubuntu1ppa4 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.8.10-2ubuntu4~ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.8.8-2ubuntu3~ppa2 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.8.6-1ubuntu5~ppa2 Tobias Wolf ()
cairo 1.8.0-0ubuntu2~ppa3 Tobias Wolf ()
evince 2.30.1-3ubuntu2ppa4 Tobias Wolf ()
evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu3ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu5~ppa4 Tobias Wolf ()
evince 2.27.1-0ubuntu2~ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
freetype 2.5.2-4ubuntu2~ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
freetype 2.5.2-2ubuntu1ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.16.3-1ubuntu1ppa5 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.14.0-0ubuntu1ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.12.4-0ubuntu5ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.12.0-0ubuntu3~ppa1 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.11.0-0ubuntu4~ppa2 Tobias Wolf ()
poppler 0.8.7-1ubuntu1~ppa2 Tobias Wolf ()
119 of 19 results

Latest updates

  • freetype 446 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • freetype 492 weeks ago
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  • cairo 671 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • cairo 680 weeks ago
    Successfully built
  • poppler 680 weeks ago
    Successfully built