daniewicz Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 I stumbled upon this website link. It discusses the enabling of Freetype native hinting through an installation of the latest version of FreeType from the FreeType project page ( currently is version 2.1.9). Does anyone have any experience with this installation? Is there anything I should be aware of? As you can probably tell, I am a Linux noob and I am trying to be cautious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Nobody has any experience upgrading Freetype??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 (edited) interesting....never heard of a need to upgrade freetype on ML, well except 3 years ago. question, then how come, compared to other distros, mandrakes fonts are so good. Seriously. What? Mandrake just uses aa? The site says they're crap. What is his prob? This is not mac. Better than windows. I've built and ran LFS, the links procedure is basically the same. Was some other way to make fonts nice discovered w/o having to do this? I've assumed the link is what mandrake did just like other distros do. I just put this in my home dir and rename it to .font.conf http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/docs/fonts.conf.txt then open a terminal and do service xfs stop && service xfs start Edited December 23, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 interesting....never heard of a need to upgrade freetype on ML, well except 3 years ago. question, then how come, compared to other distros, mandrakes fonts are so good. Seriously. What? Mandrake just uses aa? The site says they're crap. What is his prob? This is not mac. Better than windows. I've built and ran LFS, the links procedure is basically the same. Was some other way to make fonts nice discovered w/o having to do this? I've assumed the link is what mandrake did just like other distros do. I just put this in my home dir and rename it to .font.conf http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/docs/fonts.conf.txt then open a terminal and do service xfs stop && service xfs start <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually windows has awesome fonts too, enable cleartype and they look kickass. its somewhere off the display control panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 bvc: You are speaking to a linux noob, and I don't know what LFS is. What are you suggesting I do with your linked file? The website I linked to talks of hacking and rebuilding freetype to get around some Apple imposed limitations on conventional freetype. Do you think this is just a bunch of nonsense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 You dont need to enable hinting, or reinstall anythin it's all fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 interesting....never heard of a need to upgrade freetype on ML, well except 3 years ago. question, then how come, compared to other distros, mandrakes fonts are so good. Seriously. What? Mandrake just uses aa? The site says they're crap. What is his prob? This is not mac. Better than windows. I've built and ran LFS, the links procedure is basically the same. Was some other way to make fonts nice discovered w/o having to do this? I've assumed the link is what mandrake did just like other distros do. I just put this in my home dir and rename it to .font.conf http://bvc.kernow-webhosting.com/docs/fonts.conf.txt then open a terminal and do service xfs stop && service xfs start <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually windows has awesome fonts too, enable cleartype and they look kickass. its somewhere off the display control panel <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My fonts in linux are better than xp's w/ cleartype. bvc: You are speaking to a linux noob, and I don't know what LFS is. What are you suggesting I do with your linked file? The website I linked to talks of hacking and rebuilding freetype to get around some Apple imposed limitations on conventional freetype. Do you think this is just a bunch of nonsense? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah, I think the user somehow thought they found an edge, but its already done. You dont need to enable hinting, or reinstall anythin it's all fine. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Well, based on your responses, I think I will abandon my project to hack and rebuild freetype. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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