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.