On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:15:50AM -0500, Peter Constantinidis wrote: > I was surfing some font webpages and I came across this snippet of text: > > "Make sure you are not using the freetype version included in XFree86 4.3, > as it has bugs that significantly degrade most fonts, including Vera. if > you build XFree86 4.3 from source yourself, you may have installed this > broken version without intending it (as I did). Vera was verified with the > recently released Freetype 2.1.4. On many systems, 'ldd" can be used to see > which freetype shared library is actually being used." > > Thought I'd share this possible heads-up.. We don't use that version. Our experimental XFree86 4.3.0 packages use external Xrender, Xft, FontConfig, and Xcursor libraries. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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