Lovely looking Linux

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:42:13 -0500
Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:

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> Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > On 10/27/2002 04:45 AM, kwall at kurtwerks.com 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.
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> 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...

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