Re: Subpixel Hinting packages - libcairo2, libxft2, libpixman

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
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> 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.
>
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