infinality patches

[Mihai Moldovan]

* On 23.06.2014 06:14 pm, "René J.V. Bertin" wrote:
> What libfreetype do X11 applications under MacPorts use, with which anti-aliasing settings?
> Supposing it's the freetype port that determines the display quality of fonts (and not the one that ships with XQuartz), what are the chances that the Infinality patches would provide the same benefits as they do under Linux?
> Because font display quality leaves a bit to be desired under XQuartz, IMHO ...

Infinality would be great.

However, could we please take care not to run into this bug?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494764

MacPorts obviously ships ${prefix}/share/ghostscript/9.10/Resource/Font (I just
checked), so we're fine, but I'd like to keep it like this. Not being able to
print is a pretty big deal.


A further question, René. I have only used infinality on Gentoo, and there we
have this awesome eselect [fontconfig|infinality|lcdfilter] tool:

root at valery~# eselect infinality list
Available styles:
  [1]   debug
  [2]   infinality
  [3]   linux
  [4]   nyx
  [5]   osx
  [6]   osx2 *
  [7]   win7
  [8]   win98
  [9]   winxp
[0 running job(s)] {history#10006}  3:41:55 14-06-24
root at valery~# eselect lcdfilter list
Available styles:
  [1]   custom
  [2]   default
  [3]   infinality *
  [4]   infinality-classic
  [5]   infinality-nudge
  [6]   infinality-push
  [7]   infinality-sharpened
  [8]   infinality-shove
  [9]   linux
  [10]  nyx
  [11]  osx
  [12]  ubuntu
  [13]  vanilla
  [14]  windows-7
  [15]  windows-7-light
  [16]  windows-xp
  [17]  windows-xp-light
[0 running job(s)] {history#10008}  3:42:16 14-06-24
root at valery~# eselect fontconfig list | grep -i infin
  [27]  52-infinality.conf *


How would the configuration be done on OS X?

AFAIK, eselect mainly creates symlinks, but could as well also do $MORE_MAGIC.
I've never looked into that.

Obviously, infinality can be tweaked to quite some display options, which is
great, but I'm not quite sure how to make that easily user configurable.



Mihai

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