Second Version for the XFT Hack Released

Submitted by David Chester 2002-04-14 Wayland 4 Comments

David Chester released a second version for his libXFT “hack” which brings better quality anti-aliased fonts under X11 and KDE. “For fonts and sizes that appeared the most fuzzy with hinting completely disabled, this code brings significant improvement” David writes. At his home page you will find comparison screenshots, “before and after”, and the actual binary and code for the replacement libxft.

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4 Comments

2002-04-14 9:42 pm

Anonymous
..this looks beautiful. David, your work is much appreciated.
2002-04-15 12:28 pm

Anonymous
… have the option to use http://gdkxft.sourceforge.net which in turn uses libXft.
2002-04-15 4:59 pm

Anonymous
David, I’ve never said this to another man before, but d00d… I LOVE YOU, I have been using the nohinting hack and I thought it was GOOD, but this is just mindblowingly pretty to look at..

Thanks a bunch, beers on me !
2002-04-16 4:59 pm

Anonymous
sweet. and too sweet. nice also.