On 07/19/2010 11:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> It already is, in Rawhide. Upgrade an F13 machine to Rawhide and you'll
> see noticeably different font rendering.
>
> (Though it's really not as simple as that story makes it seem, which is
> why we didn't do it for F13. Bytecode interpreting on
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:26:53AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It already is, in Rawhide. Upgrade an F13 machine to Rawhide and you'll
> see noticeably different font rendering.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532
> (Though it's really not as simple as that story makes it
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 19:15 +0200, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/1524250/FreeType-Project-Cheers-TrueType-Patent-Expiration
>
> Are we going to have it enabled for Fedora 14?
It already is, in Rawhide. Upgrade an F13 machine to Rawhide and you'll
see notic
Hi,
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/07/19/1524250/FreeType-Project-Cheers-TrueType-Patent-Expiration
Are we going to have it enabled for Fedora 14?
-Ilyes Gouta
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:30:56PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Depends on
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:30:56PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> Depends on the criteria you use. The "with bytecode" version has better
> kerning, better shapes, better flow, but is blurry (yeah, without
Not just blurry, though -- awkwardly blurry. At screen resolution, in fact,
I think it's pus
+1
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Martin Sourada
wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:29 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 09:51:53PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> > The patents for the former expired but apparently some fonts look
>> > worse with it so we decided to disable it.
>
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:29 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 09:51:53PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > The patents for the former expired but apparently some fonts look
> > worse with it so we decided to disable it.
> > (I have been running with it enabled for years and for me stu
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 09:51:53PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> The patents for the former expired but apparently some fonts look
> worse with it so we decided to disable it.
> (I have been running with it enabled for years and for me stuff does
> look _way_ better with the bci ... but well this is a su
Dne 25.5.2010 18:17, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> Free world fonts - Deja Vu and so on -
> were designed with the autohinter in mind, and tend to look better that
> way.
Not all of them ... I was chatting with the author of Iconoclasta and he
admitted he developed the font on Windows and with BCI
Hi,
> That's always been how it's looked to me as well, FWIW. Given that we
> default to using free world fonts and can't ship Microsoft's fonts it
> would seem sensible to default to the autohinter rather than the BCI, in
> my opinion. I definitely prefer the autohinter's interpretation of the
>
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 21:51 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Roberto Ragusa
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm well aware that many people have different tastes about font
> >> readability and that I'm probably out of the
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>
>> I'm well aware that many people have different tastes about font
>> readability and that I'm probably out of the majority (who
>> wants "like on Windows" rendering). This awarene
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>
> I'm well aware that many people have different tastes about font
> readability and that I'm probably out of the majority (who
> wants "like on Windows" rendering). This awareness was actually
> the reason of my post: to have guys remember
Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> Hi Roberto,
>
>> My experience has always been that the autohinter is way better than
>> all the bci stuff.
>
> Mine tells a different story, especially when dealing with standard'
> fonts such as Arial, Tahoma and even Courier New.
>
> What I'd like to see is a true, fully
Hi Roberto,
> My experience has always been that the autohinter is way better than
> all the bci stuff.
Mine tells a different story, especially when dealing with standard'
fonts such as Arial, Tahoma and even Courier New.
What I'd like to see is a true, fully featured font rendering
experience
Hi Xoze,
ClearType is a tech. for subpixel rendering that targets LCD screens, isn't it?
Xft/Cairo patching is then a different feature for Fedora 14, than the
bci vm being turned on by default in FreeType.
Regards,
-Ilyes Gouta
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez
wrote:
> On W
Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our
> freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall.
> Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit
> from this, and actually look worse with the bci.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our
> freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall.
> Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit
> from this, and actually l
Hi,
Will the bytecode interpreter in freetype be enabled for Fedora 14?
-Ilyes Gouta
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our
> freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall.
> Unfo
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:53 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> If your fonts look subtly different tomorrow, this is why...
Thanks for the heads up!
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Hey,
early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our
freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall.
Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit
from this, and actually look worse with the bci. The reason for that is
that without
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