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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