Hi Michael, On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:01:37 -0600 Michael L Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 12:29, Andre Costa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is this the right place to ask for help about truetype font > > rendering problems with GTK 1.x apps with Xorg (Fedora Core 2)? It > > broke after I upgraded from XFree86 to Xorg (FC1 --> FC2). > > It's not just gtk1 fonts that look bad. It is any application that > uses the old core fonts mechanism of X11. It looks to me like they > completely removed the bytecode interpreter that is needed to make the > old fonts look good without anti-aliasing. Thank God someone else confirmed this -- I was starting to believe this was a problem with my installation only. ... can you imagine any reason why this would be deliberately removed? > > I am really lost trying to figure out which component might be the > > culprit (Freetype, Fontconfig, Pango, GTK+ etc.)... > > I believe it is in freetype. I'm looking how to fix it without > breaking my nice gtk2 fonts. If I recompiled freetype to enable > bytecode hinting, then things wouldn't look so hot on my anti-aliased > fonts. Man, my prayers go with you. Please keep me posted if you make any improvements, and let me know if I can help you anyway. Freetype was one of the MLs to which I posted this question, but unfortunately I got no answers. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
