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Subject: Bug#45782: TTF fonts not rendering correctly in KDE
From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date: 2002-07-31 12:53:30
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 4:13 am, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 05:28 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2002 11:10 pm, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> > > It's an ugly font, but that's not the point. The point is that it's
> > > rendering *differently* in KDE windows than non-KDE windows. Compare
> > > the loops in the 'e' and the 'g'. In KDE windows they've collapsed,
> > > but in the xfontsel and gfontsel windows they're fine.
> >
> > it's ok, as KDE uses QT and Qt3 uses Xft for font selection and
> > anti-aliasing. GNOME1 doesn't have AA. Mozilla doesn't have AA, too
> > (excpet spcila builds for Xft2)
> > You get different results with different libraries.
>
> I see. I thought they all used the same library for rasterization.
They use *the same library* but with different library calls/parameters. :-)
In fact, you can render glyph using FT 2.0.9:
* AA-enabled/-disabled
* Hinting: enabled/disabled
* auto-hinting: enabled/disabled
Plus, you can enabled sub-pixel decimation (sub-pixel rendering) with help of Xft...
If you want to play with all those options: download ft2demos from www.freetype.org.
launch 'ftview', and invoke different rendering methods using keyboard.
Not very interactive, but works.
>
> > > > Which version of FreeType do you have?
> > > > Check
> > > > #rpm -q freetype2
> > >
> > > [n8gray@golux n8gray]$ rpm -q freetype2
> > > freetype2-2.0.4-1mdk
> >
> > please upgrade to freetype2-2.0.9 (or newer, if available)!
>
> That helped a lot. I guess 2.0.4 wasn't working very well.
ok!
In fact, I have test separate install of LM 8.0 and FT-2.0.3, with Bytecode \
Interpreter enabled. And it works fine (for TrueType fonts)!
BTW: FT 2.1.3 will be released in a few days, her eis extract from David Turner's \
announce:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
II. New release:
I'd like to make a 2.1.3 release pretty quickly, since the current code
contains noticeable improvements to both the Postscript and auto hinters :-)
However, there are still a few things to fix to prevent nasty color fringes
to appear with LCD-optimised text rendering under XFree86 4.2
Another important point is the so-called "FT_Set_Hint_Mode" API. I've come
to the conclusion that something like the following would be a good thing:
typedef enum
{
FT_HINT_TARGET_MONO = (1 << 0), /* bit flags */
FT_HINT_MODE_ANTIALIAS = (1 << 1),
FT_HINT_MODE_OUTLINE = (1 << 2)
};
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Complete mail canbe found at:
http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/devel/2002-July/003757.html
>
> > > > Besides, I recommend you to turn AA On - as this will eliminate
> > > > terrible jagged edge effect presented on your s/s.
> > >
> > > I tried AA and found that it made things look worse overall.
> >
> > This basically means that you don't have scalable fonts installed
> > (TrueType, PostScript Type1)
>
> Nope, the problem was the old version of freetype. It rendered scalable
> fonts really badly and anti-aliasing just made it worse. Anti-aliasing
> looks *tons* better now.
super!
>
> I've still got a problem, though. I can't figure out why some fonts are
> being anti-aliased and others aren't. Arial gets AA even at small point
> sizes but Times New Roman is never AA. Where do I configure these things?
> I'm using the freetype module in X, by the way, instead of the default
> Mandrake setup with xfs.
/etc/X11/XftConfig
I attached my XftConfig to this mail, you can delete my custom dir "..." folders from \
the file, but take the rest (I deleted some not-good font aliases from Mandrake's \
default XftConfig)
Also stay tuned to KDE mailing lists, may be I will annnounce some fonts soon ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> -n8
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["XftConfig" (text/plain)]
#
# XftConfig
#
# Use with Type1 and TrueType fonts
#
# sub-pixel anti-aliasing
match edit rgba=bgr;
# Note that each application scans all these directories
# during startup, so you may want to disable some to
# get better speed.
# Windows fonts - Vadim Plessky
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WinFonts"
# Asian fonts from MS (gulimche, MingLiU, etc.)
# dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Asian"
# my (V.P.) PFB fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pfb"
# TTF fonts from Paragraph
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/parattf"
# fonts from Adobe Type Manager
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ATM"
# miscelaneous TTF fonbts (Else Ware, Bitstream, etc.)
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfmisc"
# Tilde AG
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfmisc2"
#
# Standard XFree86 Type 1 fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
# User installed fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont"
dir "/opt/ttfonts"
# URW fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
# Localized Truetype fonts
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/big5"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/gb2312"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/japanese"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/armenian"
# temporary disabled to unload extra names from KWord menu
# dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/thai"
# don't yet exist, but i hope to include some day a package for them (Pablo)
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/cyrillic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/viet"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/ethiopic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/georgian"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/hebrew"
dir "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/unicode"
# Sun JDK fonts
dir "/usr/java/jdk1.3/jre/lib/fonts"
# Sun OpenOffice, location depends on install
dir "/usr/openoffice60/share/fonts/type1"
dir "/usr/local/openoffice60/share/fonts/type1"
dir "~/openoffice60/share/fonts/type1"
# OpenOffice fonts from ttfonts*rpm
dir "/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType"
# AbiSuite comes with URW fonts as well
dir "/usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts"
#
# alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
#
match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";
#
# Check users config file
#
includeif "~/.xftconfig"
#
# Substitute TrueType fonts for Type1 versions
#
#match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "Times New Roman";
#match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "Verdana";
#match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "Courier New";
#
# Use TrueType fonts for defaults
#
#match any family == "serif" edit family += "Times New Roman";
#match any family == "sans" edit family += "Arial";
#match any family == "sans" edit family += "Verdana";
#
# Use monotype.com (andale) face where possible
#
match
any family == "mono"
all slant == roman
all weight < bold
edit
family += "monotype.com";
#
# otherwise, use courier
#
#match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier New";
#match any family == "mono" edit family += "Courier";
#
# Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local fonts
#
#match any family == "Charter" edit family += "Bitstream Charter";
#match any family == "Bitstream Charter" edit family =+ "Charter";
#match any family == "Lucidux Serif" edit family += "LuciduxSerif";
#match any family == "LuciduxSerif" edit family =+ "Lucidux Serif";
#match any family == "Lucidux Sans" edit family += "LuciduxSans";
#match any family == "LuciduxSans" edit family =+ "Lucidux Sans";
#match any family == "Lucidux Mono" edit family += "LuciduxMono";
#match any family == "LuciduxMono" edit family =+ "Lucidux Mono";
#
# TrueType font aliases
#
#match any family == "Comic Sans" edit family += "Comic Sans MS";
#match any family == "Comic Sans MS" edit family =+ "Comic Sans";
#match any family == "Trebuchet" edit family += "Trebuchet MS";
#match any family == "Trebuchet MS" edit family =+ "Trebuchet";
#match any family == "Monotype" edit family =+ "Monotype.com";
#match any family == "Andale Mono" edit family += "Monotype.com";
#match any family == "Monotype.com" edit family =+ "Andale Mono";
# modifications from Laurent Culioli
match
any family == "webdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";
match
any family == "wingdings"
edit antialias = false;
encoding += "glyphs-fontspecific";
# extra aliases -- pablo
# a nice default for sans serif (same as used in yudit)
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Arial";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Gothic";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Unicode";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Tahoma";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "BPG UTF8 M";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "GF Zemen Unicode";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "MS Mincho";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Pigiarniq";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Urdu Naqsh Nastalique";
#match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Ballymun RO";
# a nice monospaced one
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Lucida Console";
# korean
match any family == "Gulim" edit family =+ "Baekmuk unigulir";
match any family == "Batang" edit family =+ "Ubatang";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Gulim";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Batang";
match any family == "mono" edit family =+ "Gulim";
# chinese gb2312
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM GB";
match any family == "Sungti" edit family =+ "AR PL SungtiL GB";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Sungti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Sungti";
# chinese big5
match any family == "Kaiti" edit family =+ "AR PL KaitiM Big5";
match any family == "Mingti" edit family =+ "AR PL Mingti2L Big5";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Mingti";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Mingti";
# thai
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Norasi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Norasi";
# armenian
match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "ArmNet Helvetica";
# indic
match any family == "Raghindi" edit family =+ "Raghu";
match any family == "sans" edit family =+ "Raghindi";
match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "Raghindi";
#
# If the Microsoft Web Fonts are not installed, we have to find a
# replacement
#
# these come with Sun JDK 1.3
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans";
#match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright";
#match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter";
# OpenOffice 6
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Tur";
#match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Lucida Bright Tur";
#match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Lucida Sans Typewriter Tur";
# ttfonts from RH7
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Helmet";
# URW fonts
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Nimbus Sans L";
#match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "Nimbus Roman No9 L";
#match any family == "Courier New" edit family =+ "Nimbus Mono L";
# western fonts
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "Blue Highway";
# XFree86 default fonts
#match any family == "Verdana" edit family =+ "LuciduxSans";
#match any family == "Times New Roman" edit family =+ "LuciduxSerif";
# last ressort defaults
#match any family == "Courier" edit family =+ "mono";
#match any family == "Helvetica" edit family =+ "sans";
#match any family == "Arial" edit family =+ "sans";
#match any family == "serif" edit family =+ "sans";
#match any family == "Times" edit family =+ "serif";
(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/45/45782.html)
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