Date: 31 May 2002 15:28:51 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pango broken with latest freetype? Message-ID: <1022873331.70647.38.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1022872736.70647.25.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1022833144.771.31.camel@ncc-1701.webonaut.com> <1022862065.50859.2.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <1022869058.56451.13.camel@ncc-1701.webonaut.com> <1022872736.70647.25.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:18, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:17, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > Am Fr, 2002-05-31 um 18.21 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 04:19, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > As Joe tells me that my "I'm seeing some reports that say your
> > > > anti-alias/Xinerama issue is a bug in freetype2." i did
> > > > yesterday an update of freetype2 from the second last to
> > > > the latest version.
> > > > everything seems to work fine. only gdm2 displays no text
> > > > exept in the username/password input field.
> > >
> > > Well, I don't know what to tell you. I just downgraded to
> > > freetype2-2.0.9, and Nautilus displays glyphs again. I know 2.1.0 has a
> > > lot of changes for the conversion to the new freetype API. Perhaps it's
> > > incompatible with GNOME currently.
> > >
> > > I know the latest release of GARNOME shipped with 2.0.9 even though
> > > 2.1.0 was available. Maxim, are things working okay for you with the
> > > new freetype2?
> > >
> >
> > doesn't matter! i can work with my pc as ususal. that's important.
> > if it is necessary i will downgrade too.
>
> Good news! I tracked down the problem. In freetype-2.1.0, they
> introduced a new feature to use generic color maps to render fonts.
^^^^^
I meant character maps.
Joe
> This is the default, and appears to be broken. I've put together some
> patches to fix this, and I will report my findings to the freetype
> people. If you want, I'll send you my patches for testing before I
> commit.
>
> Joe
>
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > franz.
> >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > >
> > > > my first idea was to update pango. this fails (pango.log)
> > > >
> > > > then i want to update gdm2. this also fails because libpango*
> > > > has unresloved reverences to 'FT_*'. (gdm2.log)
> > > >
> > > > it's may interessting in context to this question: i now a
> > > > happy use of a (let's say) mixed gome1/gnome2-desktop.
> > > > I'm using gnome2 as desktop with Evolution, gnumeric,
> > > > galeon and abiword-gnome. of corse therefore i must install
> > > > nearly all gnome1-packages. (var_db_pkg.log)
> > > >
> > > > gdm2 and the rest of my gnome-desktop works. therefore it's
> > > > not a realy big problem for me now. (until next update :-)).
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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