Re: XFT vs. Freetype?

"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:07:45 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
> I have compiled mozilla with either Freetype or XFT.
> i.e.
> ac_add_options --disable-xft
> ac_add_options --enable-freetype2
> or disabling freetype and enabling xft2.
>
> Mozilla seems to be more stable with Freetype but has ugly
> fonts on some pages while XFT2 the fonts look wonderful.
> When Mozilla is compiled with XFT and I load a page like,
> http://pricewatch.com, Mozilla immediately dies with no 
> warning.  It does this on some other pages too.
>
> I am running XFree86 4.4.0 and higher.

I've found that building an xft/gtk1 browser is a fairly good combination,
but requires chopping out the if/fi test in configure that tells you it
can't be done.  XFT is supposed to require GTK2. No idea why.

Rinaldi
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