I've installed a recent (2/15/03) CVS version of XFree86 on my x86
Linux 2.4.20 system with Freetype 2.1.4rc1. My video hardware is a
Dell 1800FP LCD display with an ATI Radeon 7500 QW card. I'm
experimenting with Xft-based fonts, but I've run into some trouble and
hence am looking for suggestion
Around 16 o'clock on Feb 16, Jeremy Buhler wrote:
> I can get fontconfig to do this for me, but the resulting non-antialiased
> fonts are rendered noticeably worse by Xft than by the core X rendering
> engine with the "freetype" module.
The 4.2 version of "freetype" uses FreeType 1 which enables
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
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(B> Around 16 o'clock on Feb 16, Jeremy Buhler wrote:
(B>
(B>> I can get fontconfig to do this for me, but the resulting non-antialiased
(B>> fonts are rendered noticeably worse by Xft than by the core X rendering
(B>> engine with t
Around 20 o'clock on Feb 17, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Do you still think enabling the byte code interpreter is a good idea
> even with the improved auto hinter in Freetype 2.1.3?
For non-AA rendering, the byte code interpreter is crucial; there's no
other way to adjust curves and diagonals to "look
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
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(B> Around 20 o'clock on Feb 17, Mike FABIAN wrote:
(B>
(B>> Do you still think enabling the byte code interpreter is a good idea
(B>> even with the improved auto hinter in Freetype 2.1.3?
(B>
(B> For non-AA rendering, the byte cod
Around 0 o'clock on Feb 18, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to switch between the auto-hinter
> and the byte code interpreter with a run time option?
If you have the bytecode interpreter, why would you ever use the
auto-hinter for fonts with hints? Supplying the byte code inte
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> さんは書きました:
> Around 0 o'clock on Feb 18, Mike FABIAN wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to switch between the auto-hinter
>> and the byte code interpreter with a run time option?
>
> If you have the bytecode interpreter, why would you ever use the
> auto-hi
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
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(B>>ftview 50 foo.pfa
(B>>
(B>> with foo.pfa any arbitrary Type1 font already displays garbage here
(B>> if I compile Freetype 2.1.3 with the byte code interpreter enabled.
(B>
(B> Works great for me from vanilla Freetype 2.1.
Around 3 o'clock on Feb 18, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> And for fonts without hints? What if you have both fonts with and
> without hints?
As fontconfig/Xft can't tell what the font provides, it's really up to
FreeType to offer reasonable interfaces to select what behaviour is
desired. I haven't look
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