[ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread chojin
I am a long time windows user who has, around once a year for the past 6 or so years, tried to make an effort to switch my business (graphic design and web development) over to linux and the one thing consistently holding me back is font rendering... freetype is the best attempt so far, but is SO

Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread Ismail Dönmez
On Friday 23 March 2007 06:31:53 chojin wrote: I am a long time windows user who has, around once a year for the past 6 or so years, tried to make an effort to switch my business (graphic design and web development) over to linux and the one thing consistently holding me back is font

Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Does the bytecode interpreter have anything to do with this kind of antialiasing? Yes. The Windows system fonts have special instructions to provide optimal results for subpixel rendering. However, contrary to the the ClearType extensions are completely undocumented. [Well, almost, I've

Re: [ft-devel] Minor misc patches to freetype cvs, from custom changes in vtk

2007-03-23 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/23/07 7:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I see. Yet I've not checked 10.4.9, can it run 64bit Intel Mac executables? I think Mac OS X upto 10.4.8 cannot execute 64bit Intel Mac executables. In the other word, the case we have to exclude is building 64bit Intel Mac binary ON 10.4.9, not

Re: [ft-devel] Minor misc patches to freetype cvs, from custom changes in vtk

2007-03-23 Thread mpsuzuki
Dear Sir, Sean McBride wrote: On 3/23/07 7:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I see. Yet I've not checked 10.4.9, can it run 64bit Intel Mac executables? I think Mac OS X upto 10.4.8 cannot execute 64bit Intel Mac executables. In the other word, the case we have to exclude is building 64bit

Re: [ft-devel] Minor misc patches to freetype cvs, from custom changes in vtk

2007-03-23 Thread mpsuzuki
Dear Sir, Sean McBride wrote: On 3/24/07 12:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I see. Yet I've not checked 10.4.9, can it run 64bit Intel Mac executables? I think Mac OS X upto 10.4.8 cannot execute 64bit Intel Mac executables. In the other word, the case we have to exclude is building 64bit

Re: [ft-devel] Minor misc patches to freetype cvs, from custom changes in vtk

2007-03-23 Thread Sean McBride
On 3/24/07 1:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 64bit-x86 Carbon will be provided in future Yes. it is possible that ppc64 Carbon is still missing in future. No. Apple has already said that 64 bit Carbon will be for both Intel and PPC. See: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/64bit.html Thus,