embedded bitmaps (was: New uim.spec and some notes for Japanese)

Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> :

> UTUMI Hirosi <[email protected]> :
>
>> 3. Font rendering for Japanese
>> I think outline fonts are better than embedded bitmaps.
>> I added some lines to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
>> See fonts.conf.diff please.
>
> The embedded bitmaps are enabled on purpose. See the following
> part of /etc/fonts/suse-pre-user.conf:

[...]

for another reason to stay with enabling the embedded bitmaps see

    http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105626

    Wavy rendering with freetype2.1.10 and IPA fonts

Until we updated to freetype 2.1.10 we used a patch from

   http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/freetype2/

to improve the rendering for CJK fonts.

I hope this patch can be adapted for freetype 2.1.10, but
unfortunately it appears to be not so easy and I doubt that this
problem can be fixed until the release of SuSE Linux 10.0.

Because that patch is missing now, the rendering quality of the
outlines of CJK fonts in small sizes became much worse than in SuSE
Linux 9.3. Embedded bitmaps help to reduce the impact of this problem.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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