Re: [Freetype] GTK 1.x truetype font rendering gone bad with Xorg (FC2)

[Owen Taylor]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 18:37, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> sorry to bring it up again, but... no clues about what can be causing
> this font rendering weirdness?

Most likely you had a custom build of FreeType installed on
Fedora Core 1 with the TrueType interpreter enabled. The
autohinter does a good job with grayscale, not so good with
bilevel rendering.

Regards,
                                                Owen

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:00:42 -0300
> Andre Costa <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > ever since I upgraded my Fedora Core 1 to FC2, GTK 1.x apps are
> > showing bad truetype font rendering. You can check out the difference
> > with these 2 screenshots of Sylpheed [http://sylpheed.good-day.net] in
> > action:
> > 
> > http://gwpr03.microlink.com.br/~acosta/Sylpheed-FC1.png
> > http://gwpr03.microlink.com.br/~acosta/Sylpheed-FC2.png
> > 
> > Anyone has any idea on what could be the cause of this weirdness? (I
> > hope it is, because I've already tried Fedora ML, Xorg ML and
> > gnome-redhat ML, and got nowhere =( ). I've heard people saying that
> > FC2 installations from scratch don't show this behavior, so it is very
> > likely that upgrading left some FC1 crud behind which is getting in
> > the way of font rendering...

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