[CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

Ryan Pugatch rpug at tripadvisor.com
Thu Aug 27 21:03:32 UTC 2009


Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 16:00, Ryan Pugatch<rpug at tripadvisor.com> wrote:
>>> Get the freetype source RPM and recompile it with the bytecode interpreter enabled.
>> Yup already did that too :(
> 
> BCI is the one thing that makes a world of difference in fonts in
> Linux... so if you are still having bad results, it's probably because
> you did something wrong in the middle of the process...
> 
> How did you do that? Did you change the without_bytecode_interpreter
> variable in the spec file? Did you install the RPM that you rebuilt?
> Did you restart X (with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) or reboot the machine
> after the upgrade? If you have a 64-bit machine, did you build and
> install a 32-bit RPM as well?
> 
> Would you care to show the output of "rpm -qi freetype"?
> 
> HTH,
> Filipe


Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. 
I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM.

Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine.  What should 
I do?

Requested output:

[rpug at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi freetype
Name        : freetype                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.2.1                             Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 21.el5_3                      Build Date: Fri 22 May 2009 
10:04:13 AM EDT
Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:06:54 PM EDT      Build Host: 
builder16.centos.org
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm
Size        : 626801                           License: BSD/GPL dual license
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 22 May 2009 05:22:59 PM EDT, Key ID 
a8a447dce8562897
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
text-rendering library.
Name        : freetype                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.2.1                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 20                            Build Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 
04:24:21 PM EDT
Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:25:44 PM EDT      Build Host: 
localhost.localdomain
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
freetype-2.2.1-20.src.rpm
Size        : 655297                           License: BSD/GPL dual license
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Pugatch Ryan
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
text-rendering library.





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