Re: [Devel] postscript fonts, freetype and mozilla, redhat's great fonts

[Keith Packard]

Around 20 o'clock on Jan 15, Michael Cardenas wrote:

> and that Xft2 is simply a library
> which transports the bitmaps from place to place within X.

Xft2 also has code that performs pixel-component level tuning of the data, 
something which (apparently) is currently duplicated in FreeType.  It may 
be that Xft's filter is different from that in FreeType.  Otherwise, you 
are quite correct -- the intent is for Xft to be a glue-layer that plugs 
the FreeType rasterizer into X applications.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab