Hi Matja, I've found out a way to make it work...using the freetype2, libpixman, cairo and libXft packages from Fedora. Those render fonts beautifully for all GTK and Qt apps.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Matja Ka e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > 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 >
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