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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt, Xft[2], FontConfig, FreeType2
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () virtualartisans ! com>
Date:       2002-11-25 13:33:44
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You're lucky. Unfortunately for me it's still a no-go. I've started from 
"scatch" and reinstalled the standard X 4.2.0 packages, downloaded the latest 
fcpackage and freetype, installed the xft2, fontconfig and freetype2, but no 
AA. I've also tried to update Xft1 and XRender from the one which is in 
fcpackage, and still no success. Of course, everytime I've recompiled QT, and 
yes QT finds the correct XFT2 headers and libs and uses it. I've also tried 
to remove the whole dir where were my TTF fonts and reinstall again, but 
without any result. Switching back to the xft and freetype supplied with SuSE 
8.0 (and recompiling QT again) brought me the needed AA fonts. So this was a 
bad experience with the new font tools. BTW, it doesn't even work with 
libxft.so.1.2 (from fcpackage), only with libxft.so.1.1. It's also intresting 
that now I see Arial in the font list with Xft1 instead of Arial [Monotype] 
and friends. This were changing quite often in the past, when I've modified 
my settings, added/removed fonts. So for me the working solution is XFree86 
4.2.0 (standard), freetype2-2.0.8 package (freetype-config --version gives me 
8.0.2). fontconfig 1.0.1 is installed, but apparently not used.

Andras

On 2002. November 25., Monday 11:19, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> You apparently need all of this junk to get really good font rendering.
>
> And, I finally managed to get it to work.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> I finally found the problem.  There were a whole lot of obsolete font
> cache files lurking in the fontdirectories.  I removed them, ran:
> "fc-cache" and then it *almost* worked.  I had to reselect my fonts in
> the Control Center, and then it did work.
>
> And thanks to Keith Packard, the apparently unsung hero of AA fonts.
>
> Note that he did issue a new release (2.1) of the FCPackage.
>
> --
> JRT
>
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