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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The warning isn't always shown - I think it depends on the app. IIRC, wine will moan about it.
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the link in the first post for a howto on using the cleartype patches?
Its offline at the moment, is there a mirror?
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PaulBredbury wrote:
The warning isn't always shown - I think it depends on the app. IIRC, wine will moan about it.



Just realized I'm on 64bit, and wine is ofcourse using 32bit libraries :)

Gonna do a ABI=x86 and replace my 32bit libraries :)
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2008 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, that would be it.

Because I'm pretty sure lcdfilter* is in fact supposed to go in fonts.conf. It certainly works here :P
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I am trying to compile fontconfig-2.5.0-r1 from soor overlay ant it simply fails (no error messages) with and without ubuntu USE flag enabled on running autoconf. Any hints?
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

deno wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to compile fontconfig-2.5.0-r1 from soor overlay ant it simply fails (no error messages) with and without ubuntu USE flag enabled on running autoconf. Any hints?

I am aware of the issue.

I need to collect the libtool/autoconf/automake patches that have been recently applied to the font packages in portage to build with the latest versions of the above toolchain packages. I'll do it when I'm done updating qt-copy in preparation of 4.4.0 final, which was released last night.

You can either wait till tonight/tomorrow, or use stable autoconf.
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks creidiki. I'll wait. btw. I tried stable autoconf last night but got message that >=2.6(hm, that's maybe not the right version, but cannot check now as I am not using gentoo atm.) is required.
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

latest stable autoconf is 2.61-r2. 2.62 breaks a number of packages.

same situation for libtool 2.2 vs libtool 1.5

I haven't heard anything about automake, it might even be ok since its just a revbump but with GNU tools im not taking the risk :P
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here it compiles with autoconf-2.62 and libtool-2.2.4.
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*cough* thats cause I added the libtool patch from portage yesterday evening >_>
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks :) I got it.
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:23 pm    Post subject: qt-3.3.8-r4 problem Reply with quote

Creidiki, your repository has qt-3.3.8-r4 marked as ~x86, official is x86. This causes qt to downgrade to qt-3.3.4-r8, which pulls freetype-2.1. Could you please maybe make a separate fonts overlay? Your new soor overlay has just too many packages, unrelated to fonts as it seems...
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:33 pm    Post subject: Re: qt-3.3.8-r4 problem Reply with quote

Snaury wrote:
Creidiki, your repository has qt-3.3.8-r4 marked as ~x86, official is x86. This causes qt to downgrade to qt-3.3.4-r8, which pulls freetype-2.1. Could you please maybe make a separate fonts overlay? Your new soor overlay has just too many packages, unrelated to fonts as it seems...

I agree with you
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just symlinked the four fonts packages in question into my local overlay, without bothering to add gentoo-soor-overlay to PORTDIR_OVERLAY. Seems like an easy enough solution.
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:52 am    Post subject: Re: qt-3.3.8-r4 problem Reply with quote

Snaury wrote:
Creidiki, your repository has qt-3.3.8-r4 marked as ~x86, official is x86. This causes qt to downgrade to qt-3.3.4-r8, which pulls freetype-2.1. Could you please maybe make a separate fonts overlay? Your new soor overlay has just too many packages, unrelated to fonts as it seems...

I'll change the keywords on the qt packages.

but that's it, managing 3 overlays was too much of a pain.

anyway, you can just change your keywords for that one package, you know ...
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf
Code:
   
    <edit name="lcd_filter" mode="assign">
      <const>lcdfilterlegacy</const>
    </edit>


in other parts i've seen lcdfilter instead of lcd_filter as filter name.

Which one is correct?
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PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey guys, boniek seems to have not replied to this thread for some time now. What's the status with the font rendering patches? I'm still using boniek's overlay, but during the latest weeks, it has been unable to sync, since the host is down. Should I use a new overlay (although the current one seems to work pretty fine)?
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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kaildio wrote:
From fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf
Code:
   
    <edit name="lcd_filter" mode="assign">
      <const>lcdfilterlegacy</const>
    </edit>


in other parts i've seen lcdfilter instead of lcd_filter as filter name.

Which one is correct?


The fontconfig portion of this is committed upstream as of commit 53aec111074cf7b46d15eb84a55791d3c95bc15e included in release 2.5.92. The filter names changed; your fontconfig files will need to use 'lcddefault' instead of 'lcdfilter_default'.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found that after following the directions in this thread, xrdb -query showed that my Xft.hintstyle was medium and Xft.rgba was none. I'm using kde-3.5.9. I tried setting these properties in ~/.Xresources, but they were ignored. I think kde must be overriding the settings. Anyway, I added a file to .kde/Autostart:

#!/bin/bash
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Ok, its a hack, but now the settings really do stick, even after logging out and back in. I finally have beautiful fonts in emacs!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could anyone please write some short howto what is needed to get that working again? Earlier I used xeffects overlay, but now its gone and the howto too, so that would be damn nice! Or maybe someone has the text and can put it on gentoo wiki?

Thanks in advance


/edit: Here is the original article from xeffects:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070816222614/http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Font_Rendering

That should go into the wiki right?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey people, I haven't kept up with the progress of this thread and it now seems that the soor-overlay has all the ebuilds for the packages that boniek maintained in his local overlay. Is that the case? Is there a howto for this? I added soor-overlay and there is a ubuntu USE flag now, what's the deal with it?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GoofyX wrote:
Hey people, I haven't kept up with the progress of this thread and it now seems that the soor-overlay has all the ebuilds for the packages that boniek maintained in his local overlay. Is that the case? Is there a howto for this? I added soor-overlay and there is a ubuntu USE flag now, what's the deal with it?


Enable "ubuntu" and "newspr" USE flags. Emerge cairo, freetype and libXft from soor-overlay. fontconfig 2.60 is in Portage and has the ability to use the new filters.

Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf and make sure it is enabled (eselect fontconfig list).
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
    <const>lcddefault</const>
  </edit>
</fontconfig>


Enjoy.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
* You need to rebuild fontconfig with ubuntu USE enabled
 * before you can compile libXft with newspr.
 *
 * ERROR: x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *    libXft-2.1.12.ebuild, line   34:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die "Please rebuild fontconfig with ubuntu enabled."


But fontconfig has not ubuntu flag:

Code:
emerge -pv fontconfig cairo freetype libXft

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/freetype-2.3.5-r2  USE="X ubuntu -bindist -debug -doc -utils" 0 kB [1]
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.6.0-r1  USE="xml -doc" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/libXft-2.1.12  USE="newspr -debug" 0 kB [1]
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/cairo-1.6.4  USE="X glitz newspr opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -test -xcb" 0 kB [1]
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aronparsons wrote:
fontconfig 2.60 is in Portage and has the ability to use the new filters.

Wrong, cairo from soor does not build with fontconfig-2.6.0 from portage because lcd filtering is missing.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fontconfig 2.6 has lcd patches in it, but cairo patch needs to be updated.
Ubuntu patches for fontconfig were calling this fontconfig functions in cairo:
Code:
    switch (xft_lcdfilter) {
    case FC_LCD_FILTER_NONE:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_NONE;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_FILTER_LIGHT:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_LIGHT;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_FILTER_DEFAULT:
    default:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_DEFAULT;
       break;
    }


New fontconfig functions names are:
Code:
    switch (xft_lcdfilter) {
    case FC_LCD_NONE:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_NONE;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_LIGHT:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_LIGHT;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_LEGACY:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY;
       break;
    case FC_LCD_DEFAULT:
    default:
       lcd_filter = CAIRO_LCD_FILTER_DEFAULT;
       break;
    }

FC_LCD_FILTER_LIGHT now becomes FC_LCD_LIGHT

Fontconfig options are also changed:
Code:
       <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
        <!-- lcdnone, lcddefault, lcdlight, lcdlegacy -->


If somebody needs ebuilds PM.
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