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List:       freetype-devel
Subject:    Re: [Devel] postscript fonts, freetype and mozilla, redhat's great fonts
From:       Anthony Fok <anthony () thizlinux ! com>
Date:       2003-01-16 4:25:28
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Hello Michael,

It will take some time to read up the related technologies and new
components, and they are already appearing in Debian sid, although not as
fine-tuned as the latest Red Hat 8 series.  Try Google or other paths to get
to the following resources:

Keywords:

	* FreeType resources.  You already know them.
	* fontconfig, Xft, Xft2, Keith Packard and his whitepapers
	* Pango, Owen Taylor
	* Qt 3.1.1 with Xft2 support
	* FreeType 2.1.3 with 
	* XFree86's fonts@XFree86.org mailing list and archive
	* debian-gtk-gnome mailing lists
	* Debian's mozilla-xft package, although currently very crash-prone,
	  but if it works, it will be similar to what you see on RH8
	* Colin Watson, who packaged Xft and fontconfig for Debian
	* Red Hat 8.0 and 8.1 beta (phoebe)

Yep, read up!  It was mind-boggling for me at first, but I am finally
getting to know the basics.  :-)

As for Debian's FreeType package, I tried turning off the bytecode
interpreter once not too long ago, but immediately received a whole bunch of
bug reports.  Apparently, it was not ready then, so I turned it back on.

Nevertheless, some bug reporters have said they tried FreeType-2.1.3 with
David Chester's latest patches, and said that "bytecode interpreter off" +
"anti-aliasing" gave acceptable result on LCD, so yes, I may turn it off
again in the near future.  Nevertheless, feel free to experiment with the
freetype debian package 'cause I am a bit sluggish lately.  :-)

Cheers,

Anthony

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