FYI. fjf committed the patch. Hub
----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [129.175.254.5] by web14604.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:28:32 PDT Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:28:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: patch -- Xft rendering for HEAD (please commit) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0-1968044564-1026667712=:70559" --0-1968044564-1026667712=:70559 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline cf. subject. It should not break for non unix platforms, but I will keep an eye at tinderbox. If you want to see it in action, just configure with the option --enable-xft. You will need Xft2/fontconfig, you can get both of them (as tarballs) at: http://keithp.com/fonts/pub/ the package contains fontconfig, Xft, Xft1 compatible wrapper, and client Xrender. If you have an old Xfree (4.2 is good enough) you only need to install fontconfig and Xft. Both of them use auto{conf,make}, so it should be easy as a pie. If you have an old X, or one that doesn't support the Xrender extension (if Xft don't compiles, then you have an old X), you should also install the Xrender stuff with: xmkmf make make install The order is: Xrender (optional), fontconfig, Xft, AbiWord compiled with --enable-xft I think that Owen did some rpms of fontconfig/Xft some time ago, so you may use these if you want (nope, I don't remember where they are). Next, you should pick an appropiate /etc/font/font.conf. I've attached mine for convenience, but you can use the default one that comes with Xft. If you want to use MS fonts with abiword, just download them, and put them in a font directory (say /usr/share/fonts) and restart abiword. Now, for the xft specific bugs: 1) sometimes abiword will block as long as 20 seconds in XftInit (usually it takes ~0.5 seconds). I don't yet know why, I will take a deeper look later. 2) Insert symbol is not yet in a very good shape. That's in part due to how we handle our preview widget. We redraw everything when we receive an expose event. That's bad, because X can send us until 5 expose events in a row (sometimes). It would be better to draw everything in a pixmap when we receive the configure event, and then serve expose events with that pixmap. Ah, and the keyboard movement in the insert symbol is not yet fixed. 3) speed seems ok to me, but I've not yet done extensive benchmarkings. 4) I said that I wanted to put fontconfig/Xft in the tree, but I've not yet found the time to do it, and it has been a pain (a real *PAIN*) to update this patch to HEAD (I've managed to collide with both Martin tables and with Tomas pango work), so please commit now before it gets obsoleted. We can commit fontconfig/Xft later (after all, you can always compile without --enable-xft). I've done my best to keep the non enabled xft build working, but keep in mind that it's there only to do some benchmarks against the xft version, and until fontconfig/Xft hits the cvs tree. But remember that the build without xft is just for girls, real men use --enable-xft :) Cheers, P.S.: The patch is agains a cvs HEAD of some days ago. ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] --0-1968044564-1026667712=:70559-- [ snip ad + attachment ] ----- End forwarded message -----
