I rather thought it odd when I did it because I too had read about the bci doing a better job than the autohinter. I really did rebuild 2.0.6 from src.rpm after editing the header to enable to byte-code interpreter. When I installed it I noticed that the fonts had some extreme inconsistencies in the line weights and it looked really bad. Alas I did not save a screenshot of it. I'm running 1280x1024, icky intel i815 integrated video card and a ViewSonic P220f 22" monitor.
I tried the libXft-nohint patch and found that the fonts looked good, but were a little too blurry. My monitor is having problems on the edges already with blurriness on no-aa fonts, so it was too much. I just installed the freetype-2.0.8 from texstar and it looks pretty good. Does it have the bci enabled? I'll have to try this at home too, because my monitor there is much clearer at 1400x1050 than this one is at 1280x1024. Scott On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 14:46, Danny Tholen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:12, you wrote: > > I actually rebuilt the freetype2-2.0.6 source rpm with the bytecode > > interpreter enabled and found that the fonts look worse. I don't have a > > screenshot example, but I wound up put the original freetype back.... > > I'm about to try the Xft hack to see whether it is better, but it looks > > good on those side by side comparisons on that website, and I'm not sure > > that freetype2 2.0.8 will be any better. > > > That is flatly impossible (sorry for the arrogance) and I dare you to show me a >screenshot. > If you do tell me your resolution, card and monitor and font you used. (and >xftconfig file if possible). > You've done something wrong I guess. > I do have screenshots and I can send them directly to you if that's ok? > > Even the developers admit that the autohinter is not really good at the moment and >that you should enable the bci. It > is almost the same as used in freetype1, which is rendering all your X (anything >exept >QT2.2.2 and gnome2) fonts (so they must look awful > on your system if what you say is correct). > > If you want to test a good 2.0.8 freetype check >ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake-8.1-i686/ > it works fine on cooker. > > > Danny > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8hnIiaeiN+EU2vEIRAg5GAJ9Y4MMoNGa1yzNSsGv2D9/9XSnV+QCeOh74 > MRv8gsBhTLeDkIVo2Gi1GfI= > =+We9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
