Xwin and freetype...

Fri Jul 11 10:12:00 GMT 2003

Most users may not know why their anti-aliased fonts look ugly.

The problem is that the XFree86 4.x sources contain quite an old version of
libfreetype, causing this. Yuk!

To override it, install the current freetype 2.1.4 libraries in /usr/lib,
which usually get searched before the /usr/X11R6/lib directory; fonts in apps
that use freetype (eg Gnome 2 + KDE 3) look *far* clearer and legible when
much smaller!

Anyone have any idea how hard it is to get freetype into the cygwin distro
tree?

Dna

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