Thanks for the excellent detailed response... I'm not trying to be nit-picky,
but are both these rasterization? Converting files to pixels and blurring
rough edges don't seem like the same thing. Is the term used for both? I've
seen "rasterize fonts" options on printer setups (don't remember
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 07:03 pm, Ray Strode wrote:
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> freetype is a libary that can open font files (truetype, opentype, and
> other lesser formats) and convert fonts from their
> resolution-independent mathematical representations (as stored in
1. Xft was available in Moz 1.2 (or 1.2b, I am confused), but you had
to put it in manually, a big pain in the butt.
2. Whether it be type1, truetype, or now freetype, it involves a
certain definition/specification, and no one "owns" truetype. But after
Adobe trademarked "Times New Roman,"
Adobe (and probably to some extent, Microsoft) owns the rendering
engine, which is proprietary, and libraries for ttf.
Actually, I believe microsoft and apple own the rights to truetype.
I think that Adobe created postscript which was used to make scalable
fonts, before truetype existed. The
I saw that on the mirror, but was not sure what the difference between vanilla
and xft are. What does xft stand for?
I'm not sure what it stands for, but it's designed to fix the mess
currently associated with X and fonts. Basically, fonts are normally
stored on the font server (the disp
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
The biggest difference between Moz 1.2.1 and Moz 1.2, in addition to
the DHTML bug fixes (which keep freezing my Moz sessions when running
under Windows, but I did not notice any problem in Linux), is that it
now includes a version that has xft built in.
Actually 1.2 ha
DeanFujioka wrote:
What does xft stand for?
Basically xft (x Free Fonts) is Free-Source's answer to the truetype
fonts (ttf). Adobe (and probably to some extent, Microsoft) owns the
rendering engine, which is proprietary, and libraries for ttf. OTOH,
while you cannot copyright a truetype f
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 06:58 am, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> The biggest difference between Moz 1.2.1 and Moz 1.2, in addition to the
> DHTML bug fixes (which keep freezing my Moz sessions when running under
> Windows, but I did not notice any problem
The biggest difference between Moz 1.2.1 and Moz 1.2, in addition to the
DHTML bug fixes (which keep freezing my Moz sessions when running under
Windows, but I did not notice any problem in Linux), is that it now
includes a version that has xft built in.
The xft-version only comes in RedHat rp
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mozilla/mozilla1.2.1
Mozilla 1.2.1 was released today. Local mirror above. This release fixes a
nasty DHTML bug that accidentally was shipped with 1.2, along with a few
other bugs.
Release Notes
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2.1/
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