Around 18 o'clock on Aug 27, Ken Deeter wrote:

> it seems for asian fonts at least, if there are embedded bitmaps, they
> should be used even if antialiasing is enabled. (i think this is what xp
> does, not that we should always replicate xp)

That's hard to judge.  I'd say that the question of whether you want to 
use the embedded bitmaps is essentially the same as to whether you want to 
use anti-aliasing.  Well hinted Western fonts are essentially equivalent 
to embedded bitmaps. so if you like the appearance of non-AA text, you'd 
probably like it for all fonts.

> I guess I will have to wait till xft2 is out and about.

Xft version 2 is nearly shipping; it's part of fcpackage, a collection of 
bits needed to use fontconfig on top of an existing X installation.  
Gnome2 CVS has already cut over to Xft2; RH (NULL) uses Xft2 and Chris 
Blizzard is building Mozilla with Xft2.  There are patches for Qt, but 
TrollTech hasn't yet made a version of their toolkit with Xft2 support 
public.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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