[poppler] Wrong hinting

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Mon Feb 14 01:09:55 PST 2011


On Monday, February 14, 2011 08:04:17 pm Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> I'm perhaps wrong about how "Xft", "Xfd", "Fontconfig" and "Freetype"
> relate. Is "Fontconfig" a part of "Xfd" and not "Xft" as I assumed? This
> is really confusing...
Fontconfig and freetype are orthogonal. Freetype is a renderer. Fontconfig is 
basically a configuration tool for finding things to send to freetype to get 
rendered.

Xft is (probably) an X11 front end to freetype.

Xfd (or xfd) is display utility, which has no effect here.

Brad


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