Re: Subpixel Hinting packages - libcairo2, libxft2, libpixman

Thank you, Anshul, I'll try that.

But I still expect that the PLF guys will create the packages that will be
native MDV rpm packages. Will you? Please! Pretty please? Begging on my
knees...............


> 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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