Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:08:49 +0200 (CEST) From: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/28340: Handbook section on X fonts: anti-aliasing now possible Message-ID: <200106221608.SAA31213@corto.lpt.ens.fr>
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>Number: 28340
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook section on X fonts: anti-aliasing now possible
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 22 09:10:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rahul Siddharthan
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The last part of the section on X fonts in handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
says antialiasing is not possible. It is now. Patch attached.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
*** chapter.sgml Thu Jun 21 19:21:01 2001
--- chapter.sgml Fri Jun 22 18:29:34 2001
***************
*** 1380,1389 ****
display on a web page) and extremely large fonts (within
StarOffice) will look much better now.</para>
! <para>One Caveat : XFree86 does not currently support anti-aliased
! font rendering. This is less of an issue at higher screen resolutions
! but the output is still less than optimal when compared with MacOS or
! Microsoft Windows.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
--- 1380,1391 ----
display on a web page) and extremely large fonts (within
StarOffice) will look much better now.</para>
! <para>Anti-aliasing: Starting with XFree86 4.0.3, XFree86 does now
! support antialiased fonts. As of now, a lot of software does not
! take advantage of it, but Qt (the toolkit for the KDE desktop) does;
! so if you are running this version of XFree86 (or higher), Qt 2.3
! (or higher) and KDE, all your KDE/Qt applications will use
! anti-aliased fonts.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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