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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:18:41 +0100
Jens Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 21:07:02 -0700, Linux Gentoo wrote:

> Gimp 1.2 is based on gtk+-1.2.10, which is not capable of any
> antialiasing. You have to emerge the "unstable" version of Gimp
> (actually 2.0_pre2), which is compiled against gtk+-2.2.4 and
> therefore can use antialiased fonts.

Actually its not that unstable, but some issues remain with linking
inconsistencies when upgrading inside gimp-pre versions.

> Anyway, as far as I know there have been patches to do antialiasing
> with gtk+-1.2.x, but I don't know if they are integrated in it's
> ebuilds or even if they enable antialiased fonts in Gimp 1.2.

The software you speak about is gdk-xft, which was a horrid hack that
was completely unsupported. At one time it existed in the tree, but had
been hard masked for over a year when I still recieved bugs about it. At
that time it was forcibly removed and anyone thats dumb enough to
install it from the cvstree (Attic) or other place deserve whats coming
for them.  ; -)



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