Thank you, Anshul, I'll try that. But I still expect that the PLF guys will create the packages that will be native MDV rpm packages. Will you? Please! Pretty please? Begging on my knees...............
> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > PLF-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
