Re: [Devel] postscript fonts, freetype and mozilla, redhat's great fonts

[Michael Cardenas]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:04:49PM +0100, David Turner wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Michael Cardenas wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:42:03PM -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> >
> >>I see that in mozilla, redhat8 seems to be using the font Nimbus
> >>Roman No 9 L. Looking at the output of xlsfonts -ll, I see that in
> >>redhat 8, this font is being rasterized by freetype, but in lindows
> >>os, it is being rasterized by X. So my first question is, how does one
> >>get freetype to rasterize and anti alias postscript type 1 fonts?
> >>
> >
> >So can someone tell me how to get freetype to display antialiased
> >postscript type 1 fonts? 
> >
...
> Well, FreeType only does the rendering, not the text layout and
> display proper. What you really want to know is how applications
> can display AA text ?
> 

No. I am able to get AA text in netscape and qt3.0, but the fonts that
show up in the font selection dialogs are only truetype fonts and
bitmap fonts, not type 1. I would like to see how the ps hinter
performs. For example, the font nimbus roman no 9 is not available
from my qt applications (kde3) or from netscape/mozilla. 

> Generally, the toolkit they're using (GTK, Qt, others ?) must
> use a library like "libXft" or "libXft2" that will manage most of
> the X11 voodoo to use what FreeType renders.
> 

I'm fairly sure that the applications I'm using are all using xft, not
xft2. 

>   There are some builds of Mozilla that use FreeType directly to
>   render AA text. Some more recent builds use "libXft2" instead
>   which probably is much better.. None of them are officially
>   supported as far as I know.
> 

I think that mozilla1.0/netscape7 are using freetype directly, as in
their config file, unix.js, they ask for the path to the freetype
library. 

> Hope this helps,
> 
> - David Turner
> - The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
> 

Thank you,

  michael

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