I think I had realised that, somewhere in the past - so what's the answer to the question, anyone know? On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:02, you wrote:
Kurt's also a SuSE employee :)
* Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk) [010308 03:20]: => =>I'm sorry to be so lame, but I've never got a proper handle on X-fonts etc. - =>does the combination of Kurt G's statement and Ben's info mean 'you don't =>need to do anything if you've got 7.1 and kde2.1, you're already enjoying =>anti-aliased fonts', or 'you could be enjoying them if you tweak things' =>
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The answer is..I have ttfonts on my system..and all the KDE2 apps are really liking them. I just add fonts to my tt directory and run SuSEconfig. Being that Kurt is a SuSE employee ..his patches were available to them so they patched QT already which is the case as I understand it. * Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk) [010308 07:52]: =>I think I had realised that, somewhere in the past - so what's the answer to =>the question, anyone know? => => =>On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:02, you wrote: =>> Kurt's also a SuSE employee :) =>> =>> * Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk) [010308 03:20]: =>> => =>> =>I'm sorry to be so lame, but I've never got a proper handle on X-fonts =>> etc. - =>does the combination of Kurt G's statement and Ben's info mean =>> 'you don't =>need to do anything if you've got 7.1 and kde2.1, you're =>> already enjoying =>anti-aliased fonts', or 'you could be enjoying them if =>> you tweak things' => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Hi, The patched QT is available as package "qt_experimental." The default "qt" package is not patched with AA stuff. Here is a excerpt from a mail by Lenz which explains the steps needed to get AA working: <quote> No, you don't. All you need is an XFree86 4 server, that actually supports the RENDER extensions - you can check it like this: $ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ and run "SuSEconfig --module fonts". Now install package qt-experimental using YaST (it will replace the original qt library package) and restart KDE. Enjoy! Now all KDE2 apps should use AA fonts (check with xmag). If you use an LC Display, you might want to consider to activate a different RGB rendering algorithm by adding the following line to ~/.Xdefaults: Xft.rgba: rgb This looks much better on Laptop screens because it is actually using the singel RGB subpixel for antialiasing (similar to Microsoft's ClearType) </quotw> Cheers, -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/ Ben Rosenberg wrote:
The answer is..I have ttfonts on my system..and all the KDE2 apps are really liking them. I just add fonts to my tt directory and run SuSEconfig. Being that Kurt is a SuSE employee ..his patches were available to them so they patched QT already which is the case as I understand it.
* Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk) [010308 07:52]: =>I think I had realised that, somewhere in the past - so what's the answer to =>the question, anyone know? => => =>On Thursday 08 March 2001 15:02, you wrote: =>> Kurt's also a SuSE employee :) =>> =>> * Fergus Wilde (fwilde@chethams.org.uk) [010308 03:20]: =>> => =>> =>I'm sorry to be so lame, but I've never got a proper handle on X-fonts =>> etc. - =>does the combination of Kurt G's statement and Ben's info mean =>> 'you don't =>need to do anything if you've got 7.1 and kde2.1, you're =>> already enjoying =>anti-aliased fonts', or 'you could be enjoying them if =>> you tweak things' =>
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Hi,
The patched QT is available as package "qt_experimental." The default "qt" package is not patched with AA stuff.
Here is a excerpt from a mail by Lenz which explains the steps needed to get AA working:
<quote> No, you don't. All you need is an XFree86 4 server, that actually supports the RENDER extensions - you can check it like this:
$ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER
Ah, well that could be my problem: It doesn't. I'm running the XFree 4.0.2 as installed from SuSE 7.1 and RENDER does not appear in this output. How do I enable this? Do I need to rebuild X from source? (fear)
Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
Also, I thought it worked for Type1 fonts as well? -- Rachel
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
$ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER
Ah, well that could be my problem: It doesn't. I'm running the XFree 4.0.2 as installed from SuSE 7.1 and RENDER does not appear in this output. How do I enable this? Do I need to rebuild X from source? (fear)
Not all driver modules support RENDER extension yet. Maybe yours is the one not supported! Don't ask me for a list of supported drivers. I don't know :)
Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
Also, I thought it worked for Type1 fonts as well?
What do you mean? -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
$ xdpyinfo | grep RENDER RENDER
Ah, well that could be my problem: It doesn't. I'm running the XFree 4.0.2 as installed from SuSE 7.1 and RENDER does not appear in this output. How do I enable this? Do I need to rebuild X from source? (fear)
Not all driver modules support RENDER extension yet. Maybe yours is the one not supported! Don't ask me for a list of supported drivers. I don't know :)
Ah, well, if the support goes in at that level (which would surprise me actually) then that's quite possible.
Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
Also, I thought it worked for Type1 fonts as well?
What do you mean?
Adobe Type 1 Postscript fonts, the so-called "scaleable" fonts so named because they're composed of outline & structure data rather than just bitmaps. -- Rachel
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
Also, I thought it worked for Type1 fonts as well?
What do you mean?
Adobe Type 1 Postscript fonts, the so-called "scaleable" fonts so named because they're composed of outline & structure data rather than just bitmaps.
Well, I know what Type1 fonts are, but I didn't understand the sentence. -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Now install your True Type fonts below /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/
Also, I thought it worked for Type1 fonts as well?
What do you mean?
Adobe Type 1 Postscript fonts, the so-called "scaleable" fonts so named because they're composed of outline & structure data rather than just bitmaps.
Well, I know what Type1 fonts are, but I didn't understand the sentence.
It's my understanding that the anti-aliasing support applies to Type 1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts. -- Rachel
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Well, I know what Type1 fonts are, but I didn't understand the sentence.
It's my understanding that the anti-aliasing support applies to Type 1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts.
Not as far as I know. TrueType fonts contain hints which are used for AA rendering. This is a guess :) I may be completely wrong. Anyone here can shed more light? -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Well, I know what Type1 fonts are, but I didn't understand the sentence.
It's my understanding that the anti-aliasing support applies to Type 1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts.
Not as far as I know. TrueType fonts contain hints which are used for AA rendering. This is a guess :) I may be completely wrong. Anyone here can shed more light?
Type 1 fonts also contain hinting information. This is how Postscript printers maintain proper font appearance when printing small text. This is also how Acrobat Reader anti-aliases text. Also, back in my Acorn days, I could routinely convert Postscript Type 1 fonts to fully hinted Acorn fonts, so the information must have been there in order for it to be converted. I'd be *deeply* disappointed if the AA support in X4.0.2 doesn't support Type 1 fonts. No, my problem is the lack of RENDER support in my X4.0.2. :-( Still not getting any response from the SuSE people on this; I might have to register my newly-bought 7.1 and ask through Installation Support... -- Rachel
Hi fellows !! I have a SuSE 6.4 box installed and running the iAS on a SCSI disk of 18GB (It has an AHA-29160N SCSI controller card). How I need to all of this to an IDE 20 GB IDE Disk... In this case could I just create the same quantity of partitions that on the SCSI one and pass them with a "dd", change the input on the Lilo.conf, run the lilo Command to update the lilo entries, remove the SCSI Disk and all live happy for ever after ? Thanks for any tip. bye --ed
Linux News User wrote:
Hi fellows !!
I have a SuSE 6.4 box installed and running the iAS on a SCSI disk of 18GB (It has an AHA-29160N SCSI controller card).
How I need to all of this to an IDE 20 GB IDE Disk...
In this case could I just create the same quantity of partitions that on the SCSI one and pass them with a "dd", change the input on the Lilo.conf, run the lilo Command to update the lilo entries, remove the SCSI Disk and all live happy for ever after ?
Only if the partitions are the same size. Otherwise you can use tar. There was a nice little command posted a while back that would do it using no tape or file for the medium. I think it used a named pipe or somthing. Don't have it any more but it's in the archives. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
Hi,
Hi fellows !!
I have a SuSE 6.4 box installed and running the iAS on a SCSI disk of 18GB (It has an AHA-29160N SCSI controller card).
How I need to all of this to an IDE 20 GB IDE Disk...
In this case could I just create the same quantity of partitions that on the SCSI one and pass them with a "dd", change the input on the Lilo.conf, run the lilo Command to update the lilo entries, remove the SCSI Disk and all live happy for ever after ?
Only if the partitions are the same size. Otherwise you can use tar. There was a nice little command posted a while back that would do it using no tape or file for the medium. I think it used a named pipe or somthing. Don't have it any more but it's in the archives.
It's not necessary that partitions are the same size. You can use dd but if you're not an experienced user you can get in troubles. When you want to use dd, cp, cat (you can use cp or cat instead of dd but i don't recommend although they are faster) to move the partitions on another disk just you have to be carefull the second disk is bigger than the first one. But what about partimage? Have you ever tried? It's a great utility for that. Try a search on freshmeat.net for partimage. MURAT KOC
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