[desktop-discuss] Font engine issues... / was: Re: [Fwd: [Bug 513]New: Poor default for fonts in

[Alan Coopersmith]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Roland Mainz wrote:
>>> IMO it may be better to keep the BitStream TrueType engine for
>>> OpenSolaris - but AFAIK this isn't possible since it's closed-source...
>>> ;-(
>> We've already switched Xorg to FreeType in nv_74 or later - it works much
>> better in the 64-bit builds than my previous attempt to make the old code
>> 64-bit clean where it never was before.
> 
> Much better ? Did you ever compare the monocrome output for HG
> GothicB&co. when rasterized by the BitStream engine vs. FreeType2 engine
> ? Did you ever notice what FreeType2 does with the Hindi glyphs in
> Solaris ? xx@@@xx@@!!!!

No, but no one has filed bugs - probably because most users were already
using FreeType rendered fonts in Firefox & GNOME anyway.

>> Users can go to the advanced panel in GNOME font preferences to decide
>> whether or not to use the full interpreter in GNOME apps.
> 
> Huh ? The FreeType2 TTF bytecode interpreter is disabled at compile
> time, not runtime.

Not in our copy.   8-)
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/XW_NV/open-src/lib/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.hint.patch

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