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Re: Display of Chinese TTF Fonts



HEY!
中科大的ftp://debian.ustc.edu.cn/debian-uo/zh/下有打了firefly补丁的全套;
freetype,xft, mozilla,libqt等

如果教育网内无法访问的话,可以访问
1. ftp://218.22.45.5/debian-uo/zh
2. ftp://221.6.69.11/debian-unofficial/zh -->现在正在rsync中,估计还没结束.

这两个的debian-uo都是我从debian.ustc.edu.cn上做的mirror

Regards
Falls


Anthony Fok wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:22:55AM +0800, Meng Liang wrote:
>  
>
>>By default, the small font size looks rather bad.  I don't know which ttf font 
>>you are using.  If you are using simsun, mingliu, you can set the anti-alias 
>>false for the size between 10~16.  They have bitmap font embeded.
>>
>>The best solution maybe install the patches by firefly for fontconfig, 
>>freetype and xft.  It can output the chinese font name and has many other 
>>features.
>>    
>>
>
>Firefly's patch has been incorporated in Debian's libfreetype6 (2.1.7-2)
>package back in January 2004.  However, fontconfig, xft, Mozilla etc.
>aren't patched yet, and we will need to file the appropriate bug reports
>to get them fixed.
>
>Note that this progress is going to take a while.  The Firefly/Akito
>CJK autohinting patch that I put in libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 may be causing
>some Russian users big headaches because some of the popular fonts they
>use are now rendered rather badly.  See:
>
>	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=230179
>
>and especially the screenshot at:
>
>	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/Screenshot.png?bug=230179&msg=12&att=1
>
>So yes, it may be a while before these patches make it to all their
>respective upstream source trees and to Debian packages.  Meanwhile,
>I heard that  http://debian.ustc.edu.cn/  have these packaged.  I
>haven't tried them myself, but feel free to try them out.  :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Anthony
>
>
>  
>



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