Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:08:02 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> Subject: Re: Cleartype-similar? Message-ID: <1185980882.1444.23.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46B066BF.8010609@crackmonkey.us> References: <46B050C8.7000705@passagen.se> <46B066BF.8010609@crackmonkey.us>
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--=-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--
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