Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:33:00 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd fc-cache binaries Message-ID: <1104449580.8767.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20041230232922.GA15293@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041230195320.GA91304@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041230203049.GA11245@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041230211112.GA20159@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041230215331.GA29414@xor.obsecurity.org> <1104447677.8767.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20041230232922.GA15293@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--=-3eUhrXVO4d0LV06FCl+j Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:29 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:01:17PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 13:53 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > >=20 > > > > * Find someone that can create a RedHat 8 RPM of freetype2-2.1.4 or > > > > higher (preferably 2.1.7). I'm sure one of our users could do this= , and > > > > it wouldn't hurt to ask. > > >=20 > > > Would 2.1.9 not work? > >=20 > > 2.1.9 would work, but we have not updated due to the API changes. > > Therefore, I haven't tested 2.1.9 to know if its rendering style will b= e > > uglier than 2.1.7. If someone can produce a 2.1.9 RPM, and it renders > > decent fonts, then by all means, go for it. >=20 > Someone found me a 2.1.5 package, which seems to work and to fix both > problems I found. Fonts in linux-mozillafirebird are also not > anti-aliased (at least not when displaying on my os x laptop) - is > this expected? Anti-aliasing needs a firebird built with Xft support. Since linux-mozillafirebird doesn't depend on libXft (the Linux version, of course), it will not show anti-aliased fonts. Try out a GTK+-2.2 application, and see what that yields. Alternatively, download one of the GTK+-2/Xft versions from mozilla.org. Joe >=20 > Kris --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-3eUhrXVO4d0LV06FCl+j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB1JAsb2iPiv4Uz4cRApWsAKCZB9/IpZSX848/bnNOEI+LX/gbkACfdage +Tno6ouTjWQN8P5O+a66JK8= =oTUS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3eUhrXVO4d0LV06FCl+j--
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