Date: 14 Apr 2003 20:41:27 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: derek@cdbaby.com Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree 4.3 - did AntiAliasing change? Message-ID: <1050367286.69920.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200304141713.06978.derek@cdbaby.com> References: <20030413033628.GA52737@mail.hitmedia.com> <200304141713.06978.derek@cdbaby.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:13, Derek at CD Baby wrote: > Has anyone got anti-aliased fonts to work in FreeBSD 4.8? > > In XFree 4.2, I would add my AntiAliased font directories to this file: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig > ... and everything was fine. > > Now that file doesn't exist, and I can't get fonts to anti-alias, even if I > create that file and put the font directories there like I used to? > > Did something change in XFree 4.3 in FreeBSD 4.8? Yes. XFree86 switched from Xft1 to Xft2. This new version uses fontconfig (for better or worse). > > Are we supposed to use /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf? Yep. Of course, this should all happen automatically. What app are you using that doesn't show anti-aliased fonts? > > (Is someone going to update HANDBOOK chapter 5.5.3 Anti-Aliased Fonts, if so? I had planned on it, but I've been busy. It's still on my TODO. Joe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+m1U2b2iPiv4Uz4cRApUWAJ9RehxEmxIbdmNTYy8h39WgEz48+wCfbNd6 PTreBdnvKMrCVHPuEoD5wSQ= =Q6gh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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