If anybody interested, I have found that in FreeType (including the
latest v2.7), sub-pixel font smoothing is turned off by default - due to
possible patent issues - see https://www.freetype.org/patents.html -
scroll down to the last section of this page, and see:
"... By default, FreeType's s
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
>> freetype bump to 2.7 has been merged
>
>
> Wow, cool! Will update now. LOL about bad news :)
The build server had some issues so the package will be published to
the repository as soon as the situation is back to normal.
>
>
> _
freetype bump to 2.7 has been merged
Wow, cool! Will update now. LOL about bad news :)
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>> And one more related question: Does anyone know how to install the latest
>> freetype 2.7 in OpenIndiana?
So I have good news and bad news:
1) good news is that, following from Adam's brazen action, freetype
bump to 2.7 has been merged and font rendering is much nicer!
2) bad news is that fon
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that in my Virtualbox Hipster installation fonts are smoothed
> using grayscale technique, despite the fact that I have selected "Subpixel
> smoothing (LCDs)". Has anyone experiencing the same problem? Is it a bug
Hi all,
I have noticed that in my Virtualbox Hipster installation fonts are
smoothed using grayscale technique, despite the fact that I have
selected "Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)". Has anyone experiencing the same
problem? Is it a bug or maybe depends on videodriver or something?
And one more
