> Hi, > I have some RPMs downloaded from a link off the Fedora Forums (I've posted > this on PLF before too- Subpixel Hinting using cairo patches) and those > RPMs > in addition to the libfreetype6 subpixel enabled RPM provide perfect > subpixel hinting for KDE and GNOME on 2008.1 and 2009. > > I might be able to divvy up the spec files...can a packager help me with > putting these on PLF? > > Regards > Anshul > _______________________________________________ > PLF-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
It would be really nice if finally PLF included libcairo, libxft and libfreetype with subpixel rendering enabled. The current libfreetype6 from plf has BCI enabled, which only makes the fonts look even worse. BCI was useful before subpixel rendering was possible as it helped look MS core fonts look the same as in Windows. But today - who on earth would want that any more? Thanks to David Turner from FreeType project the subpixel rendering works in Linux, but he stopped the project as he doesn't want to violate patents. And that is why God created PLF, isn't it? As I have already said before - the packages libcairo2. libxft2 and libfreetype6 form PCLinuxOS 2007 repositories make fonts look perfect in 2008.1. In 2009 there is some other story - KDE4 uses its own font rendering and fonts look very very nice without any additional workaround - but I can not figure out how to make fonts in MCC, Firefox and Openoffice look the same. _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
