RE: [Devel] Apple's X11 1.0 --- font rendering

[Turner David]

Hello,

I'm just suggesting there, but the difference could come from:

  - different font files being used "Luxi Mono" has been released
    both in Postscript and TrueType formats, and each will produce
    different output

  - having the TrueType bytecode interpreter enabled/disabled
    in FreeType

  - different versions of FreeType => different rendering, usually

"freetype-config --version == 9.0.3" isn't really sufficient there

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Eric Knauel
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 5:52 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Matthias Neubauer
> Subject: [Devel] Apple's X11 1.0 --- font rendering
> 
> 
> 
> While working on bringing Xft fonts to XEmacs I tried out the same
> binary on a number of platforms and XFree86'.  Now, I'm wondering how
> it's possible about the diffrences in the quality of the glyphs
> rendered.  I put together some screenshots:
> <http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/knauel/xft-sc
> reenshots/>
> 
> A good example here is the Xft-XEmacs with a buffer font "Luxi
> Mono-12" (btw, all font files on all platforms have identical
> MD5-sum, same ~/fonts.conf):
> 
>   - XFree86 4.3.0 on a FreeBSD machine an Freetype 9.0.3 (that's what
>     `freetype-config --version' says) looks great:
>     
> <http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/knauel/xft-sc
> reenshots/freebsd-xfree-4.3/xemacs-luxi-mono-12.png>
> 
>   - XFree 4.2 on OS X 10.2.x (as distributed by Apple as X11 0.3 beta)
>     with Freetype 8.0.2 looks even better:
>     
> <http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/knauel/xft-sc
> reenshots/x11-0.3-beta/xemacs-luxi-mono-12.png>
> 
>   - XFree 4.3 on OS X 10.3.2 (as distributed by Apple as X11 1.0) with
>     Freetype 9.0.3 looks terrible:
>     
> <http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/knauel/xft-sc
> reenshots/x11-1.0/xemacs-luxi-mono-12.png>
> 
> Especially characters like `L' and `m' look bad with Apple X11 1.0.
> Additionally all characters lock thicker.  I wonder if there is a
> particular reason why the rendered fonts differ in such a dramatic
> way.  Any clues?
> 
> -Eric
> -- 
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> 
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