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Yes, Dugan seems to have taken the 'fontconfig' SlackBuild down from his download site. It contained quite a few configuration patches, so my guess is that he is revising it for compatibility reasons with new versions or something.
Bill.
It work very nice for me on slackware-current. But I use binary package (fontconfig) from #106 post. I need patches from fontconfig's slackbuild. I also use /etc/fonts from xubuntu 9.04.
Slackbuild for fontconfig from post #92 not available. Please upload it anywhere.
Carp! I forgot to upload the new Fontconfig SlackBuild! Sorry about that.
However, I can't upload it this week. I'm on vacation and I didn't bring my Slack box. Give me until Tuesday (when I get back).
In the meantime, though, you can patch Fontconfig yourself. The exact collection of patches (click on "files"), and the ebuild I based the SlackBuild on, are both here:
Gentoo ebuilds, like SlackBuilds, are human-readable. Read the ebuild to find out which patches you need for which rendering style. Figuring out each patch's p-level is a bit trickier. Generally, the ones that add configuration files are p0 and the others are p1.
Thank you very much, I was looking for this for a long time. I thought, that I'll need to install ubuntu, just because their font rendering was different (better for me) than in most distros.
Sure, it's matter of taste, and depends on your display, but I think for LCDs this is perfect.
To begin with, I've installed both the Droid fonts and the SlackBuilds from post #92 (Ubuntu-style rendering). Webcore fonts from SlackBuilds.org are installed too.
That's about as close to windows "cleartype" as I've seen. I prefer using different patch sets and settings that give a more bold look but that still looks great.
you could consider adding --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} to configure flags in libXft.SlackBuild, cairo.SlackBuild and freetype.SlackBuild to put the libraries in /usr/lib64 in Slackware64.
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