linux-fontconfig

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 18), Charles A. Landemaine said:
> I am in charge of porting Linux-Opera to PC-BSD, and it appears that
> the FreeBSD port of linux-fontconfig didn't have bytecode enabled
> during compile time, could you confirm this? I'm saying this because
> if I install the webcore fonts, and turn off antialiasing under 12px
> font size, fonts are jagged instead of being hinted like on Windows.
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon, Thanks,

Fontconfig doesn't render fonts at all; freetype does, and that's part
of the linux_base package.  The current linux_base simply installs
Fedora Core 4 rpms, so any configuration issues with the installed
binaries you will have to bring up with them.

Why not just use the native FreeBSD opera?

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com