Re: Mozilla with Freetype in Solaris
[email protected] (Richard L. Hamilton)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix |
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| Organization | Timetravellers Anonymous |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Hans Werner Strube) writes: > In netscape.public.mozilla.unix Hans Werner Strube <[email protected]> wrote: >> [email protected] (Hans Werner Strube) wrote: >> >>> Has anybody got mozilla working with libfreetype in Solaris? I have built >>> mozilla 1.5 in Solaris 7 with either gcc-2.95.3 or Sun Forte7; libraries >>> freetype (2.1.5), gtk, glib (1.2.10) etc. self-compiled with Sun Forte. >>> When I enable Freetype using fonts in /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/, >>> the font table is generated correctly. But displaying texts with TrueType >>> fonts does not show any letters but (if anything) horizontal lines only. >>> My libfreetype works well with other programs, e.g., xpdf. >> >> Now, a year later, I tested this with the "official" Solaris 8 SPARC >> download of Firefox 1.0 and three independently compiled libfreetype.so.6 >> (two 6.3.4, one 6.3.2). The result is still the same! May be a byte-order >> problem? > > Oops, just I noticed that this bug occurs only with 8-bit PseudoColor visual, > not with 24-bit TrueColor. But as far as I remember, this did not hold > for my old Mozilla tests. > If any of that does some sort of display enhancement of text, it might require the ability to use colors at various values between background and foreground; that would be a lot more difficult if one had to worry about limited color availability. -- mailto:[email protected] http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil Lasik/PRK theme music: "In the Hall of the Mountain King", from "Peer Gynt"