On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:15, Owen Savill wrote: > Sorry, I should have said that I have made all the edits for Mozilla. My > comment was really that even when this is done TT fonts still don't look > as smooth as KDE's. > > I found a freetype2 gz source file with the "naughty" bits in it so I > installed that. I will try the PLF version in case it has some more / > newer stuff in it. > > Thanks, > Owen
The only difference between .mdk and .plf versions of freetype is that the bytecode interpreter has been enabled in the .plf version. They use the same .src.rpm; just grab it from a mandrake repository and rebuild with --with plf to get the PLF version. The official freetype2 source has all the bytecode interpreter stuff included, it's just disabled by a single #DEFINE in one of the files. There's details on the freetype webbie about where to enable it when building from source. No need to do that, though, just use the .plf RPM. The reason the rendering looks different is that Moz interfaces directly with freetype2, it doesn't go via Xft(2). I find they look pretty close, though. Anyway, I think Frederic will be building Mozilla 1.2 with Xft2 support (it's in Moz now), so it's all going to be outdated soon. -- adamw
