[Fontconfig] TTF fonts etc.
Adam Sampson
azz at us-lot.org
Sat Oct 11 20:19:12 EST 2003
Ciprian Popovici <ciprian at zuavra.net> writes:
> GTK v1 based apps CAN NOT anti-alias fonts so you're stuck with
> "scaly" and stair-edged fonts. It's a problem especially if you get
> the precompiled official Mozilla for instance, which is based on
> GTK1. Better look for alternative builds based on GTK v2.
Mozilla is a bad example here, because it doesn't use GTK for text
rendering either on web pages or in the interface; you can build a
Mozilla binary with GTK1 that uses Xft for text and thus does
antialiased fonts anyway.
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Adam Sampson <azz at us-lot.org> <http://offog.org/>
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