Re: Complexities of font rendering
Re: Complexities of font rendering
- Subject: Re: Complexities of font rendering
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:19:55 -0400
On 2008 Aug 2, at 13:00, Jay Levitt wrote: I used to use Hummingbird Exceed on Windows XP as my X server. Now that I have a Mac, under 2.2, I recently noticed, using xemacs from a remote machine running Fedora FC9, that the fonts "weren't as pretty as I was used to". (See, even I know that's a vague and useless description.)
xemacs has to be compiled to use client-side TrueType fonts, and configured to use them. eXceed, IIRC, substitutes local TrueType fonts for the most common X11 bitmaps, so it will generally have better rendering than most Unixy X11 implementations when the standard bitmap fonts are involved. (Sun's OpenWindows also used to do its own substituting if you configured it correctly.)
I don't know if this kind of font substitution is on the XQuartz developers' radar. It's certainly not common.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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