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List:       freetype-devel
Subject:    Re: [Devel] postscript fonts, freetype and mozilla, redhat's great fonts
From:       Michael Cardenas <mbc () lindows ! com>
Date:       2003-01-16 4:32:11
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:25:28PM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote:
> 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:
> 

Great. Hopefully, I can help you to do that tuning!

> 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)
> 

It is my understanding that fontconfig is a method for configuring
fonts in one place instead of many, and that Xft2 is simply a library
which transports the bitmaps from place to place within X. So,
shouldn't I be able to get the same quality of rasterization without
them? 

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

Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me, if the execs will let me
do it. 

Thanks alot for the prompt and informative response!

michael

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