Hello guys, i thought it will be good idea to share my work results. As you might know, Windows and Mac are using their own methods to improve font rendering on LCD displays. Ubuntu is using sub pixel rendering, byte code interpreter and LCD patches to cairo,libXft to provide nice font rendering. We do not have it in Fedora, as there are some patent issues (lot of patents from Microsoft about font rendering). I wanted to have a nice fonts on my Fedora desktop also. So i took patches from Ubuntu Intrepid to cairo (vector graphics library) and libXft (X freetype library) and applied them to current Fedora 10 Rawhide packages. I also rebuilt freetype ( font engine ) with subpixel rendering and bytecode interpreded which is disabled by default in Fedora package. Result is in my repository , which can be easily used by downloading boss.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory - http://david.hlacik.eu/fedora/boss/boss.repo and doing yum update . It will update freetype cairo libXft to my patched packages . (it also provides freetype-devel , cairo-devel, libXft-devel or SRPMS) After X restart (logout and again login) you will enable LCD subpixel smoothing in Gnome by going to System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Appearance , going to Fonts tab and in Rendering section choosing Subpixel smoothing (LCD). Thanks , David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
