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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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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


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