On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:42:13 -0500 Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > > On 10/27/2002 04:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:59:48AM +0000, Pam R wrote: > > >>Interesting article on using Freetype fonts with linux. Amongst other > > >> things it says that Freetype2 should be installed _twice_; in > > >/usr/local> and in /usr/X11R6. Does anyone know why? > > >> > > >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html > > > > > > Perhaps because they don't know what they're doing? X from CVS should > > > handle all of this pretty handily. > > > > Except that X uses an old, and broken implimentation of freetype. Read > > the README's that come with freetype for the reasoning. X is at fault, > > not freetype. > > with any version of X except for *most* recent CVS, the version of > Freetype included with X is flat-out broken. And it wasn't smart enough to > look at your system Freetype. The upcoming 4.3 fixes this. that's why pam. Could this be why the truetype fonts that I get in KDE on Col 3.1.1 with the stock X look so terrible? I have many TT fonts installed, including the MS ones. Thay are all found by X (xlsfonts and xfontsel), but the results are often unreadable when I turn on anti-aliasing. I have the render stuff in. Just curious. This has been bugging me and has resulted in me not using TT fonts with AA, despite everyone else's 'luck' with them. I do use TT fonts in an application and that works fine. Ramble ramble... -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
