Martin Husemann --> tech-pkg (2004-05-18 19:38:47 +0200):
> So I rebuild everything without the PREFER_NATIVE* stuff - and the result
> is even worse. So I filed a PR about it:
> 
>   pkg/25624: font rendering broken
> 
> There is a screenshot at http://www.duskware.com/badscreen.png,
> since it's hard to believe how bad it is w/o looking at it. This screen is
> on a TFT, and gnome-font-properties is set to sub pixel smoothing, and
> full hinting.
> 
> Martin

I just rebuilt two NetBSD (i386) systems and all their packages from scratch:
- system A uses HEAD sources (src, xsrc and pkgsrc)
- system B uses netbsd-1-6 (src and xsrc) and HEAD (pkgsrc) sources
I.e. A runs NetBSD 2.0E and XFree86 4.4.0, and B runs NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE
and XFree86 4.3.0.

On both systems I installed fonts/ms-ttf and added a Tahoma TTF manually.
I'm using neither Gnome nor KDE; I only noticed a difference in how fonts
are displayed in firefox-gtk2: very nice on system B, not so nice (depends
on the font) on system A. Here are some screenshots: the NetBSD website[1],
as seen by system A[2] and by system B[3] (use 'bzip2 -cd file | xwud' to
view...).
Additionally, there's a font test page[4] as seen by system A[5] and
system B[6]. Notice how helvetica and times look bad on system A.


Regards, Jukka

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/
[2] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ffgtk2_nbsdc_xf440_nbsdorg.xwd.bz2
[3] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ffgtk2_nbsds_xf430_nbsdorg.xwd.bz2
[4] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/
[5] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ffgtk2_nbsdc_xf440_fonts.xwd.bz2
[6] http://salmi.ch/~jukka/nbsd/ffgtk2_nbsds_xf430_fonts.xwd.bz2

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