On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:55 +0100, Leo wrote: > On Tue, 10/10/06 11:17 +0100, Yuan Yijun wrote: > > > 2006/10/9, Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > >> FZSongTi, 方正宋体, which is a commercial font. > >> > >> > >> Tweaking font needs some expertise on fontconfig, xft and > >> freetype. It's not a task for end users. I hope fedora come with a > >> better Chinese font support. > >> > > > > chinese fonts in fc6 has changed a lot from fc5, the look and feel has > > been improved so much that you have never seen in other distributions. > > please compare fc6 to novell again after fc6 released. > > > > -- > > bbbush ^_^ > > I probably can do it for FC7. I have no plan to upgrade to FC6 since > I'm stuck with a lot of work at this time. But what on earth has > changed from FC6 to FC5 with respect to Chinese fonts? Is it the new > fontconfig or a new CJK font? Is it possible to backport those to FC5? The most likely candidate for a big improvement in this area is a newer version of FreeType. Recent versions of FreeType contain specific code for auto-hinting CJK fonts. (A version of this code has apparently been in SuSE for a while as a patch.) - Owen [ This is just a guess - I haven't checked the FreeType version in FC6 or looked at FC5 / FC6 comparisons for font quality. ] -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
