Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (132 mails)

[Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2005 11:11 schrieb Robert Graf-Waczenski:
> The freetype web page also mentions that their pixel-hinting algorithms
> are actually better than the bytecode interpreter, so they recommend to

That would be really nice, yet I could never get freetype to display as clear 
fonts as with the bytecode enabled, so for me bytecode is the best option 
available.

> I finally decided to give the bytecode interpreter a try, went to
> download the freetype2 sources (version 2.1.9, to be exact) and enabled
> the bytecode interpreter by removing the comments in one of the header
> files in the source code. What follows then is the usual combo of:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> For freetype2, i also had to copy the resulting library files from
> /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib, but this was also done in a few seconds.

> Any other ideas and suggestions?

For German-speaking people, there is a HOWTO that explains how to recompile 
the src.rpm in order to enable the bytecode-interpreter, by simply editing 
the .spec-file.

http://www.antikoerperchen.de/deutsch/howto-30.php

The only two things I would have to add, are first, Yast somehow does not 
install the src.rpm, so one has to do it in the console using rpm -Uhv and 
second, KDE 3.4 does not default to Sans Serif/Serif in Konqueror > Settings 
> Konqueror Preferences > Fonts, but Nimbus, which has to be changed, to use 
the MS TT-Fonts.

Maybe, if somebody has the time to do it, one could put up a site at 
www.susewiki.org, to spread the word about re-compiling the src.rpm.

Sven