Roland Mainz wrote:
> IMO it may be better to keep the BitStream TrueType engine for
> OpenSolaris - but AFAIK this isn't possible since it's closed-source...
> ;-(
We've already switched Xorg to FreeType in nv_74 or later - it works much
better in the 64-bit builds than my previous attempt to make the old code
64-bit clean where it never was before.
> ... as alternative I suggest to enable at least the TrueType bytecode
> interpreter in libfreetype2 since this will improve the quality for many
> of the commercial fonts (which usually have bytecode embedded for better
> quality).
Users can go to the advanced panel in GNOME font preferences to decide
whether or not to use the full interpreter in GNOME apps.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
