Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
Just to add to the fray There is a story on slashdot of a minor hack which is supposed to significantly improve aa font rendering. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/06/0112235.shtml?tid=104 --- Michal Bukovjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi cooker, there is a new freetype2 lib and from the changelog (of 2.0.7): --- - Fixed two bugs in the Type 1 font driver. The first one resulted in a memory leak in subtle cases. The other one caused FreeType to crash when trying to load .gsf files (Ghostscript so-called Postscript fonts). (This made _many_ KDE applications crash on certain systems. FreeType _is_ becoming a critical system component on Linux :-) - Fixed a memory leak in the CFF font driver. - Fixed a memory leak in the PCF font driver. Since in cooker there is apparently 2.0.6, I think it should be upgraded, just because of KDE Michal ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-pkcs7-signature name=smime.p7s = SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. -FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:43 am, you wrote: Just to add to the fray There is a story on slashdot of a minor hack which is supposed to significantly improve aa font rendering. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/06/0112235.shtml?tid=104 Looks very nice here. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 02:38 am, you wrote: there is a new freetype2 lib and from the changelog (of 2.0.7): Since in cooker there is apparently 2.0.6, I think it should be upgraded, just because of KDE Seems that 2.0.8 is out as well as of 2002-02-07. FreeType 2.0.8 is released (2002-02-07) This release fixes a small problem in 'freeetype-config' script that appeared in 2.0.7, unfortunately.. We encourage you to download it as soon as possible if you're using the library on Unix.. Changes: LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.8 and 2.0.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - There was a small but nasty bug in freetype-config.in which caused the freetype-config script to fail on Unix. this doesn't prevented the installation of the library or even its execution, but caused problems when trying to compile many Unix packages that depend on it.. !!! - some TrueType or OpenType fonts embedded in PDF documents do not have a 'cmap', 'post' and 'name' as is required by the specification, FreeType no longer refuses to load such fonts.. - various fixes to the PCF font driver http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.0.8.tar.bz2 -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Hoyt wrote: hmmm, I reported a few weeks ago that there was a 2.0.8 on CVS and that enabling bytecode interpreting is essential if you want nice fonts. This hack of libXft looks interesting, but I'm not sure if there is really any difference. I'll try to find out what it is doing exactly. Nobody commented so I wonder who maintains freetype2? I can rebuild it with 2.0.8 +ttf bytecode interpreter if some1 from mandrake cares to reply??? Danny On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:43 am, you wrote: Just to add to the fray There is a story on slashdot of a minor hack which is supposed to significantly improve aa font rendering. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/06/0112235.shtml?tid=104 Looks very nice here.
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
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. Scott On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 05:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Hoyt wrote: hmmm, I reported a few weeks ago that there was a 2.0.8 on CVS and that enabling bytecode interpreting is essential if you want nice fonts. This hack of libXft looks interesting, but I'm not sure if there is really any difference. I'll try to find out what it is doing exactly. Nobody commented so I wonder who maintains freetype2? I can rebuild it with 2.0.8 +ttf bytecode interpreter if some1 from mandrake cares to reply??? Danny On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:43 am, you wrote: Just to add to the fray There is a story on slashdot of a minor hack which is supposed to significantly improve aa font rendering. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/06/0112235.shtml?tid=104 Looks very nice here.
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
-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-
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
Le mer 06/03/2002 à 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Nobody commented so I wonder who maintains freetype2? I can rebuild it with 2.0.8 +ttf bytecode interpreter if some1 from mandrake cares to reply??? [will@bastard BUILD]$ rpmmon.pl -p freetype2 gletoquart so CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linux-wizard.tuxfamily.org/index.html - Hummern anyone knows if i can install red hat 5.1 from win98 ??? - #linux
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
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-
Re: [Cooker] freetype2 lib and KDE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 March 2002 22:10, you wrote: I just installed the freetype-2.0.8 from texstar and it looks pretty good. Does it have the bci enabled? Well, I do not know what you did, but textars is 2.0.8+bci :) Maybe the bugs in 2.0.6 were just a lot more visible with your monitor/fonts. So in conclusion I hope we can have the bugfixes+bytecode interpreter enabled in 2.0.8, if the maintainer agrees? To Fabrice: thanks for replying, ofcourse I just ran rpmmon myself (duhh...should have done that before). Danny 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- - -- `Incidentally,' he said, `what does teleport mean?' Another moment passed. Slowly, the others turned to face him. `Probably the wrong moment to ask,' said Arthur, `It's just I remember you use the word a short while ago and I only bring it up because...' `Where,' said Ford quietly, `does it say teleport?' `Well, just over here in fact,' said Arthur, pointing at a dark control box in the rear of the cabin, `Just under the word emergency, above the word system and beside the sign saying out of order.' - - Arthur finding an escape route from a certain death situation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8howtaeiN+EU2vEIRAqn7AKCU/DxQqa3xwD/Zs3+DC7MaRbKukgCXRdb2 wxMGLELjB8nBbfhff9m7Iw== =HZNX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
