Hello everybody, I am a programmer for a chinese linux distribution, though, I am
absolutly a novice. I am going to make some contribution on the Fonts related field
for linux, and hence, I start my study. However, I have some questions on these area,
hope that I can get some help from you.
>From some documentation of xft, I know that xft is a library for redering font, which
>use freetype2 to do the rasterization. It release the workload for load and managing
>fonts from X Server to X Client.
I also heard that, Gnome 2 is using XFT, hence I have come up the following question..
1. It seems that XFT is so good, so what's about the conventional fonts module inside
X, like the xtt, freetype, type1, etc...
2. Does the freetype modules in X use XFT?
3. If I want to use XFT, should I use DRI modules??
(This is a serious question for me, as I am a laptop user, the display chips is ATI
Range Mobility, it seems that DRI doesn't support this.)
4. In Gnome2 (I am not sure, I just believe so), use XFT will have a good anti-aliased
fonts, if I can't use XFT, does it means that I can only use the conventional
modules?
5. As in the XFT documentation says, XFT is for client application, just like Pango
use it,
hence all gtk2 and gnome2 apps will benefit from this, but how about other
software
using other toolkits, like qt? Is there project is adopting pango, or xft in
qt, or
enlightenment ?? (I know Enlightenment hasn't release the R17 for a long time,
but
I have really want to see it in the future, it is the first reason I install
my first linux : )
6. In xtt, the ttcap functions is useful for chinese fonts (I am a Chinese), however,
does
freetype provide this, or xft provide this??
7. If similar functions of ttcap is not available in xft and freetype currently, will
it been in
the todo list later.
8. Okey, last question, from XFree86.org, I read the documentatioin about fonts, and it
points me to the original webiste of freetype, and xtt. but for the xtt, the
host is not
reachable, and for the freetype module, the web page points me back to the
XFree
documentation for details. At last, I can't find any further information on
this two
modules.
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Zenith
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