[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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