Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:36:19AM -0500, Stefan Teleman wrote:
>
>> Yes, but is there some reason we actually want to deliver them, or is
>> this just "autoconf sees it, so let's consume it"?
>
> The reason we want to deliver these extensions is the ability to display
> anti-aliased fonts.
>
> LibGD also binds to freetype/fontconfig and can convert anti-aliased
> fonts to image representations thereof.
fontconfig & freetype make sense in that context, and I've used GD in the
past to generate anti-aliased text using them with our now-dead STSF project
as part of a web cgi - but I don't believe Xft is of any use outside an X
client application - Xft is the library to tie fontconfig & freetype together
with the X protocol for anti-aliased text in X applications.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
