From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 15:08:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C6216A41B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E4B13C4B4 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:08:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so248394uge for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=RR3OJSkXPvA9+pFd76hK+XpiHZmi3ByXgcrqyXKgTEFqH1VmM6LBub4yHXefIqFD//jPo5RuVy5clLPHmYNIR2dbYh041Y/cw/EW8pQSsv0fKNys+AKqPVd7dXrUrVkfFBwE4UX+vp5w8gzgv/NCARhbgZs03xJBnU6RAZrnBcU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=IwGKazo8UgoAdEkxQvt5l7Nifdc9m2C8hwKBEiF6rvtEmMGR9MtUXAjjFzraDR/RY+8wOKhuVS5uhjaFmz2j/mUtCk22u1Q7QUSxVrpOE3DOobNPNsNOkxqCYK3Ig042N3Cy32JHXdHVcoIwtVw9BFfl4cxXL8DhaddLXv1d8Fo= Received: by 10.66.221.5 with SMTP id t5mr1401176ugg.1185980884299; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [217.206.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm4151023nfv.2007.08.01.08.08.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us In-Reply-To: <46B066BF.8010609@crackmonkey.us> References: <46B050C8.7000705@passagen.se> <46B066BF.8010609@crackmonkey.us> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0IcORpXAM7wrLnWMB8eI" Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:08:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1185980882.1444.23.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: User Questions , Roger Olofsson Subject: Re: Cleartype-similar? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:08:07 -0000 --=-0IcORpXAM7wrLnWMB8eI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:55 +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Roger Olofsson wrote: > > Dear Mailing List, > >=20 > > Is there something similar to cleartype for FreeBSD? > >=20 > > Grateful for any replies! > >=20 > > Greetings > >=20 > > /Roger >=20 > Hi Roger, >=20 > I believe you are after FreeType. Should be in the ports tree. >=20 > Adam J Richardson Cleartype is a Windows 2000 feature that enables sub-pixel anti-aliasing on fonts displayed on a LCD panel. FreeType assists in that; this page gives full details[1]. It is a bit dated, and seems to suggest that it should work straight off the bat in recent KDE/Gnome versions. Certainly seems like it does anyways. Never been bothered enough to check! [1] http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html --=-0IcORpXAM7wrLnWMB8eI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGsKHPlcRvFfyds/cRAtLDAJ0d2qorjd+tKVmRRu8+s31OVx8l6QCgtLbn ImFphUwCEehrh8VdeZMQrlE= =iU2d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0IcORpXAM7wrLnWMB8eI--