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Well, Slackware 14.1 is already here so i builded a VM for x86 and tested the modified SlackBuilds, so far they just work.
At my repository there's an install.sh script to make more easy the process and updated the screenshots using xfce.
thank you for your effort. I have tried it, but it seems that the font rendering is worst, probably due to some misconfiguration by me Anyway I'm back to using freetype with the subpixel patch
anyone knows how to fix the fonts in java programs?
Last edited by grothen; 11-11-2013 at 04:42 PM.
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by the way, hasn't the subpixel hinting patent expired? (probably mixing something here) cause in debian now to achieve good fonts it's sufficient to enable subpixel hinting with fontconfig while in Slackware it doesn't work.
Apple's bytecode interpreter for font hinting expired, Microsoft's subpixel rendering patent did not. You still have to recompile freetype to use it.
I have tried it, but it seems that the font rendering is worst, probably due to some misconfiguration by me
In my case i just let the default configuration because i really do not have the time to mess around with something that seems to be already a mess.
BTW, i created that repository in Oct 15, 2013 while Bohoomil (infinality-bundle author) created a wiki-page [1] in Oct 30, 2013, which quite frankly helps to understand the hole project. Anyway, there is an issue, since Bohoomil makes this project for Arch Linux their packages are updated more quickly (freetype, fontconfig and cairo) than Slackware [2] so any improvement (patch-configuration) is for a more updated package.
Something that i have to say, my repository has the patches-configurations that works with the packages that Slackware 14.1 provides and as far as i know these patches-configurations work best with Microsoft fonts (i just copied them from my C: drive to /usr/share/fonts/TTF) but in the "last version" (commit mainly) Bohoomil makes by default the configuration for "free fonts" [3] and also added a tool [4] to change this behavior. Anyway, for someone more interesting (and with more time) now knows where to start
(Change the mirror directory if you need to: for example, if you're using 64-bit Slackware).
Then rebuild Freetype!
(In case anyone's wondering, all the patch does is uncomment two options in Freetype's source. The file is include/freetype/config/ftoption.h, and the two options are FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING and TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING.)
Some text missing at the start of your diff, but we can always copy and paste from your earlier post. I've made the changes myself by:
enabling TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING in include/freetype/config/ftoption.h and
uncommenting zcat $CWD/freetype.subpixel.rendering.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1 in freetype.Slackbuild, and just recompiled.
I was very happy with Infinality (on 14.0), but on 14.1 fonts look much better. Now I know what changes I actually made. More power to the user. Thanks dugan for your hints .
Hi! I have updated the latest official infinality patches from here http://www.infinality.net/blog/infin...etype-patches/
for slackaware-14.1 and it's freetype-2.5.0.1
and build freetype and fontconfig-infinality packages
Ready build packages (the freetype package is for x86_64 only, use the slackbuilds below for 32 bit)
freetype-2.5.0.1-x86_64-infinality20131213did.txz
EDIT: Since I don't know if it allowed to share this compiled
due to licensing, use the slackbuilds below to build freetytpe.
If it's ok, I can share the prebuild package again. fontconfig-infinality-1-20130104_1-noarch-1did.txz
Download the two above packages and then
upgradepkg freetype-2.5.0.1-x86_64-infinality20131213did.txz
installpkg fontconfig-infinality-1-20130104_1-noarch-1did.txz
Reboot and enjoy infinality
The updated infinality patch freetype-entire-infinality-patchset-20131213-01.patch
(ttinterp.c) Removed all patches except one, all the rest seem to included upstream
(ttsubpix.c) Removed patches since the changes are included upstream
(ttsubpix.h) Removed patches since the changes are included upstream
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