Re: [Cooker] Re: Xft hack

[scott chevalley]

I thought that Xft2 depends on freetype2 as well, so using the hack should generate better fonts under xft2 as well.
Just a thought. Xft2 and Fontconfig are, from what I understand, just config and access interfaces into the freetype2 font renderer for X, they don't actually perform any rendering themselves.

Scott

Adam Williamson wrote:

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 04:20, Han Boetes wrote:

actually what's the status of that hack? will it get included into the
standard freetype2 rpm?

It's not up to me to decide that. I am not a mandrake employee, but I
like the patch very much. I think that the patch will make it into the
freetype source code sooner or later. I mean it is free code and the
result are really much better than anything I have seen before.

freetype-2.1.2 is less stable than suggested on the freetype homepage
but 2.1.3 looks good.

But do test the rpms on my homepage so you can see for yourself and look
if you can find any bugs.

Well, remember Cooker will go to Xft2 when F. Crozat gets back from
holiday. So the hack may not apply any more.