Font display improvements in Freetype library.

Contributed by jose on 2003-05-04 from the great-looking-fonts dept.

an anonymous reader writes: "Improvements in recent releases of the Freetype library ( http://www.freetype.org) have resulted in dramatic improvements in the rendering and display of antialiased truetype fonts using the non-patented auto-hinting algorithms. The latest version of libfreetype (2.1.4) is not included with OpenBSD 3.3 and has not yet found its way into current, but manually upgrading it is not difficult for semi-advanced users (compile and install the new versions, backup the old versions, and make a symlink). This appears to be what many of us have been waiting for -- clean, crisp, antialiased fonts in X11." The submitter of the story sent me a PNG graphic, which I have posted on my website . Wow, this is a major improvement.

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By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-04 15:24

wow my font looks like as compared to that...
By David "caff" Coppa () caff@openbeer.it on 2003-05-04 17:57 http://caff.openbeer.it/

http://caff.openbeer.it/txt/firebird-aa.png
http://caff.openbeer.it/txt/firebird_xft.html
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1. By Francois Briere () francois@dynasty.ath.cx on 2003-05-05 03:33 mailto:francois@dynasty.ath.cx
  
  Are you running XFree 4.3 or XFree 4.2.1 ?
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  1. By David "caff" Coppa () caff@openbeer.it on 2003-05-05 07:59 http://caff.openbeer.it/
    
    4.3
By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-04 23:26

What's wrong with the Xft support in 3.2 and 3.3? You don't to wack up your system... it's already there.
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1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-05 00:14
  
  There isn't anything wrong with XFT support. But advances have been made in libfreetype giving much better font quality, and XFT applications can take advantage of this now. Those who feel the need can upgrade themselves with minimal risk of 'wacking up their system'. However, if you don't feel comfortable doing so (or you don't feel it is necessary) then that is fine too. I imagine most people will wait until it is imported into the OpenBSD tree (perhaps when it is imported into the XFree86 tree?? Only a developer can answer this.) Some of us are just impatient when it comes to pretty fonts =)
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  1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-12 22:14
    
    amen
By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-05 19:35

if i run opera under linux emulation would this help?
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1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-05-06 13:49
  
  Hmm, Opera appears to have Xft support, so it *might*. You might have to get Linux versions of some of the relevant libraries, I don't know. And even then there is the possiblity it won't work. Maybe I'll try it one these days and see if I can figure it out (or perhaps someone else will try it first, and let us know).

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