Roland Mainz wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> 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. > > Much better ? Did you ever compare the monocrome output for HG > GothicB&co. when rasterized by the BitStream engine vs. FreeType2 engine > ? Did you ever notice what FreeType2 does with the Hindi glyphs in > Solaris ? xx@@@xx@@!!!!
No, but no one has filed bugs - probably because most users were already using FreeType rendered fonts in Firefox & GNOME anyway. >> Users can go to the advanced panel in GNOME font preferences to decide >> whether or not to use the full interpreter in GNOME apps. > > Huh ? The FreeType2 TTF bytecode interpreter is disabled at compile > time, not runtime. Not in our copy. 8-) http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/XW_NV/open-src/lib/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.hint.patch -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
