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 the TrueType byte code hinting engine which dramatically improves the quality of the resulting images. Xft (and XFree86 4.3 "freetype") use FreeType 2 which disables this by default over patent concerns. You can easily recompile Freetype2 to include the bytecode interpreter if US patents aren't a concern for you. That should make Xft and "freetype" generate identical results. In your freetype source directory, look in include/freetype/config/ftoption.h for TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER -keith _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
