Re: [Devel] Help me understand this... I'm loosing my sanity. Please.

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 08:08, David Chester wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Basically, I am trying to figure out why the antialiased fonts in the
> > debian (KDE 3.1.1) are so much worse than in redhat 8 and 9.
> ...
> > 7. I noticed that redhat 8 sets the following resources by default:
> > 
> > Xft.dpi:        96
> > Xft.hinting:    true
> > Xft.hintstyle:  hintmedium
> 
> Redhat 8 uses a modified freetype and a modified Xft2 to offer different 
> levels of hinting (all using the autohinter and ps hinter).

Actually, I think all the changes to freetype in Red Hat 9 are also
in freetype-2.1.4.

The "Xft.hintstyle" above though, is a Red hat patch; it is used
to set options for freetype to use "light hinting" which will cause
less stem distortion.

Regards,
                                      Owen

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