Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:02:30 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: About that Freetype2 update Message-ID: <oprwb4ygdt8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200309301528.36177.metrol@metrol.net> References: <200309300115.05714.metrol@metrol.net> <1064910135.48606.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <oprwb0sogj8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <200309301528.36177.metrol@metrol.net>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:28:36 -0700, Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:32 pm, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:22:15 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke >> <marcus@FreeBSD.org> >> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> > Everything here looks beautiful. You're free to test your assumptions >> > above. If the byte-code interpreter helps, I can always add that back >> > in as an option. >> >> Here too, everything looks so good now.. It looks much more darker and >> curve.. Also, it looks much much better when it is black background with >> white font. >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> > Joe > > With that byte-code thingy turned on, my fonts look as they did with the > old > version of Freetype2, quite nice. It's been a LONG time since I had font > complaints about FreeBSD... up until this byte code thing anyway. > > What in the wide wide world of sports is different about my setup?? > Okay, > rhetorical question. I just hate having to manually patch stuff up to > get > things stable here. I have sent to PR[1] to add WITH_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER define, because I rather to have the bytecode interpreter enable now.. After using it with disable for a while, I get headache and many bold fonts look awful. I switched back to bytecode interpreter enable and the headache is starting to go away.. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57433 Cheers, Mezz > Later on, -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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