On Tue, 10/10/06 14:50 +0100, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 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. ]
This makes sense to me.
I have checked the Release Notes and Changelog of Freetype 2.1.10 to
2.2.1 and it seems to me it is very safe to upgrade. Here is from the
Release notes
Note that, as a convenience to our Unix desktop users, version
2.2 is *binary* compatible with FreeType 2.1.7, which means that
installing this release on an existing distribution shall not
break any working desktop.
Should we consider issuing an update for FC5?
--
Leo
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