On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Martin Costabel wrote:
Supposing that freetype is good for *something* besides annoying people with incompatible updates, there should be some drawback from this solution. Are there any visible font-rendering glitches?
Haven't seen any difference both with and without freetype enabled in FF1.0 on Apple's X11. The only font issue I've noticed is that bold text doesn't get bolded, irrelevant of the build option.
A more consistent solution would be for mozilla/firefox to use Fink's freetype2, which would then be independent of the X11 version of the day.
Firefox has a fix for Xorg's freetype already in their CVS. Same with Mozilla, so if a package were made for Moz1.8a6 (or FF1.0) when that is released, it should be fixed automagically to use the X (any flavor) provided freetype. I spent the better part of a week with another used who has Xorg trying to get it to link to Fink's freetype, but resetting the usual env vars and even some specific mozilla flags did not work. Links to Xorg freetype were always listed first. Maybe some nasty patching of the Makefiles might have fixed that, but that would have been quite a bit of work, and there's a fix that works already (tracker #1077738).
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