Re: Fonts and sub-pixel hinting/rendering

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thanks for the link Tom, I did read it a couple months prior ;) and I 
still don't have an answer as to how to fix this though...

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Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
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Hal Burgiss wrote:

> If it was the article that mentioned the freetype config option: 
> TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER, this is off in RH's freetype. I
> got the src.rpm and checked it. Not sure this is even necessary with
> Xft2 since all my fonts look pretty good :) Has anybody tried this? 

No he's talking about subpixel rendering, not the TT bytecode
interpeter that is patented.

As I told Kevin, subpixel rendering only applies to LCD displays.

see http://grc.com/cleartype.htm for more details.

                 -Thomas



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