* On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 16:42:44 +0100, Spider 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.
You are absolutely right, I use the developer series of gimp myself a
few months now and I'm pretty happy with it. That's why I put
"unstable" in quotes. ;)
>> 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.
[...]
Thanks for the clarification. I knew there was "something", but I
didn't know what it was. Seems I avoided some painful experiences
NOT trying it. ;)
Regards,
Jens
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