Re: New GTK+ anti-aliasing patch posted

[Michael L Torrie <torriem cs byu edu>]

It's not my patterns. ;)  It's what gnome control panel's theme selector
is requesting.  I don't know exactly the pattern it was looking for; just
something with helvetica at a certain font size.  Perhaps there should be
an option to fail the the call when a font isn't found and then fall back
on conventional font rendering through the font server.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Keith Packard wrote:

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> Around 14 o'clock on Mar 14, "Bryan O'Sullivan" wrote:
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> > For some reason, the Xft call I use will always succeed on loading
> > nonexistant fonts; it just substitutes a weird-looking broken font
> > with bad bearing metrics instead.  The result is that some kinds of
> > windows render at huge widths.
>
> That's a feature, not a bug...  Xft provides a best-fit matching scheme so
> that any font patten provided will match *something*.  It may be that the
> patterns you're building are either too-specific, or not-specific enough.
> In the first case, Xft will select a font which matches all of the
> requirements but may otherwise not be what you want.
>
> If you describe what patterns you're building, we can see what should be
> added or removed to make matches more sensible.
>
> keithp keithp com	 XFree86 Core Team		SuSE, Inc.
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