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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bi3l wrote:
I've updated the tarball:
- freetype to 2.3.7-r1 (latest ubuntu, archlinux and portage patches)
- cairo to 1.8.6 (latest ubuntu and archlinux patches)
- libXft to 2.1.13 (latest archlinux patches)

I've also added pixman 0.13.2 (shamelessly stolen from devnull :wink: )

Once again, thank you for your efforts. (even if I don't make use of them now :D)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bi3l wrote:
I've updated the tarball:
- freetype to 2.3.7-r1 (latest ubuntu, archlinux and portage patches)
- cairo to 1.8.6 (latest ubuntu and archlinux patches)
- libXft to 2.1.13 (latest archlinux patches)

I've also added pixman 0.13.2 (shamelessly stolen from devnull :wink: )

No probem, I stole some stuff from you too :p
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What do you recommend now? Cleartype or those other patches? Or all of them? I'm still confused 8)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phlogiston wrote:
What do you recommend now? Cleartype or those other patches? Or all of them? I'm still confused 8)

cleartype. newspr is dead in devnull (and gentoo-lcdfiltering)

I have updated the devnull overlay, we are now in sync with gentoo-lcd-filtering.tar.bz2.
bi3l: if you want access to the overlay for doing this font stuff pm me so we don't have to do double work (our ebuilds were nearly the same anyway)

devnull users: please rebuild cairo libXft and freetype, then revise your fontconfig settings and post here if you have any problems with the cleartype stuff.

edit: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/cleartype.png here is a screenshot so you can see what it looks like with this settings* - different but nice.
* different monitors render differently so it may be possible that you get other results. also you can't screenshot subpixel rendering.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ocin wrote:
Phlogiston wrote:
What do you recommend now? Cleartype or those other patches? Or all of them? I'm still confused 8)

cleartype. newspr is dead in devnull (and gentoo-lcdfiltering)

I have updated the devnull overlay, we are now in sync with gentoo-lcd-filtering.tar.bz2.
bi3l: if you want access to the overlay for doing this font stuff pm me so we don't have to do double work (our ebuilds were nearly the same anyway)

devnull users: please rebuild cairo libXft and freetype, then revise your fontconfig settings and post here if you have any problems with the cleartype stuff.

edit: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/cleartype.png here is a screenshot so you can see what it looks like with this settings* - different but nice.
* different monitors render differently so it may be possible that you get other results. also you can't screenshot subpixel rendering.


Im new to all of this stuff, just whant to know... if i unmask cairo and build it with cleartype and restart X, i will get pretty font rendering? or also i need to configure something?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need to add devnull overlay, and install fontconfig freetype libXft and cairo from there, after that make sure you have the fontconfig module for eselect (eselect-fontconfig) and then adjust your settings with it. My configuration looks like: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/eselect_fontconfig_list You can play around with it until you are statisfied (like trying different hinting styles, autohint y/n, subpixel etc.)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ocin wrote:
You need to add devnull overlay, and install fontconfig freetype libXft and cairo from there, after that make sure you have the fontconfig module for eselect (eselect-fontconfig) and then adjust your settings with it. My configuration looks like: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/eselect_fontconfig_list You can play around with it until you are statisfied (like trying different hinting styles, autohint y/n, subpixel etc.)


Hi. I am new to gentoo.
I installed devnull overlay.
When i try to install fontconfig i get :

"Please rebuild freetype-2 with ubuntu enabled."

i can't find freetype-2 with emerge.
anyone can help?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

din_vl wrote:
ocin wrote:
You need to add devnull overlay, and install fontconfig freetype libXft and cairo from there, after that make sure you have the fontconfig module for eselect (eselect-fontconfig) and then adjust your settings with it. My configuration looks like: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/eselect_fontconfig_list You can play around with it until you are statisfied (like trying different hinting styles, autohint y/n, subpixel etc.)


Hi. I am new to gentoo.
I installed devnull overlay.
When i try to install fontconfig i get :

"Please rebuild freetype-2 with ubuntu enabled."

i can't find freetype-2 with emerge.
anyone can help?

if you get this error you are not using freetype from devnull overlay. after adding devnull overlay, "emerge -auvDN @world" should do it.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ocin wrote:
din_vl wrote:
ocin wrote:
You need to add devnull overlay, and install fontconfig freetype libXft and cairo from there, after that make sure you have the fontconfig module for eselect (eselect-fontconfig) and then adjust your settings with it. My configuration looks like: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/eselect_fontconfig_list You can play around with it until you are statisfied (like trying different hinting styles, autohint y/n, subpixel etc.)


Hi. I am new to gentoo.
I installed devnull overlay.
When i try to install fontconfig i get :

"Please rebuild freetype-2 with ubuntu enabled."

i can't find freetype-2 with emerge.
anyone can help?

if you get this error you are not using freetype from devnull overlay. after adding devnull overlay, "emerge -auvDN @world" should do it.



Thanks. Got it.
But, whats better upgrade only freetype (only what i need) or better upgrade all world?
Is it save to upgrade world? :roll:
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there a new link to the how-to? I have dug through about 20 ish pages with no luck...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found this howto.

Will try to follow it and see what i can get.

http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/better-lcd-font-rendering/
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

din_vl wrote:
ocin wrote:
din_vl wrote:
ocin wrote:
You need to add devnull overlay, and install fontconfig freetype libXft and cairo from there, after that make sure you have the fontconfig module for eselect (eselect-fontconfig) and then adjust your settings with it. My configuration looks like: http://nico.core.ws/tmp/eselect_fontconfig_list You can play around with it until you are statisfied (like trying different hinting styles, autohint y/n, subpixel etc.)


Hi. I am new to gentoo.
I installed devnull overlay.
When i try to install fontconfig i get :

"Please rebuild freetype-2 with ubuntu enabled."

i can't find freetype-2 with emerge.
anyone can help?

if you get this error you are not using freetype from devnull overlay. after adding devnull overlay, "emerge -auvDN @world" should do it.



Thanks. Got it.
But, whats better upgrade only freetype (only what i need) or better upgrade all world?
Is it save to upgrade world? :roll:

sure it's safe to update world. the newest packages are in world waiting for update after sync, however if you only want to rebuild or update one package which already is installed use "emerge -1 packagename"

@Cyberstudio: The howto you have posted is still valid.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:57 am    Post subject: NewSPR versus ClearType-like Reply with quote

Since no one has posted a comparison, I'm stepping up.

http://home.mattwhitlock.com/~mattw/newspr_vs_cleartype-like.html

The two are very similar, but there are tiny differences. Personally, I like the newspr better (it looks a little sharper), but it's not a big enough difference for me to complain in the face of forward progress.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:15 am    Post subject: Re: NewSPR versus ClearType-like Reply with quote

mwhitlock wrote:
Personally, I like the newspr better (it looks a little sharper), but it's not a big enough difference for me to complain in the face of forward progress.


I've compared with and without cleartype-like on my system and concluded the same.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, newspr is imho a bit better than cleartype too (btw: the screenshot does not exactly reflevt how it looks on the monitor) but since gentoo is using the cleartype patches it's easier to use that. Also nice to see how the font rendering is getting better and better with every update of the packages and or patches :)
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WELL I dont see any how-tos to make my shitti font any better...
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've switched to the gentoo portage freetype and cairo and its just not as good as the newspr was. Spacing seems wrong and i'm seeing red fringing on letters. Hopefully it will improve though. Is there some reason why the "newspr" can't continue to be included on the devnull overlay?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pezed wrote:
I've switched to the gentoo portage freetype and cairo and its just not as good as the newspr was. Spacing seems wrong and i'm seeing red fringing on letters. Hopefully it will improve though. Is there some reason why the "newspr" can't continue to be included on the devnull overlay?

laziness + portage compability.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ROFL 8)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You always use ff to compare the fonts. But do other apps pickup your font settings? For example opera does not here. Neiter some native qt apps.

Any hint?

/edit: Not sure why, but it works now :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phlogiston wrote:
You always use ff to compare the fonts. But do other apps pickup your font settings? For example opera does not here. Neiter some native qt apps. Any hint?

Qt doesn't use Cairo. And Qt4 doesn't even use libXft.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've updated the tarball with freetype 2.3.8 (gentoo-lcd-filtering.tar.bz2).
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally I think cleartype is much worse, at least with light text on a dark background. I am using a dark theme and the light text looks multicolored instead of off-white. Text is much clearer when I turn cleartype off.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is how my fonts looks like:
Firefox:
http://www.shrani.si/f/1w/yZ/4zb7mX5x/snapshot12.png

Openoffice:
http://www.shrani.si/f/1f/CW/32Tq4tft/snapshot17.png

KDE 3.5.
http://www.shrani.si/f/1f/vD/4r07KWla/1/snapshot14.png

VLC (QT4)
http://www.shrani.si/f/1v/bY/4B8jsqwz/snapshot16.png

Opera (QT4)
http://www.shrani.si/f/3Q/Fz/DGuj1cL/snapshot18.png

Don't know why qt4 fonts are little lighter....
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

IvanMajhen wrote:
Don't know why qt4 fonts are little lighter....

Probably because QT doesn't use the libraries these patches change to render fonts. At least that is what has been said (many times) earlier in this thread. :)

(and do you think it wise to advertise to the world that you are watching a pirated movie? ;))
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