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X Font Rendering

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  • Subject: X Font Rendering
  • From: Youri Mouton <youri.mout@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:31:53 +0100
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Hello fellow developers,

 I've been interested in using NetBSD as a desktop OS and to contribute to it for a long time and EdgeBSD seems like a great for me to finally get involved. Part of the whole desktop experience I want is having nicely rendered fonts, especially in my web browser.

Here are the instructions on how to get it looking like in the attached screenshot made on NetBSD current and xfce48 from pkgsrc-wip with Firefox 26.  You'll need a copy of pkgsrc and that you have root access.

######
#  Patching freetype:
######
# curl -O http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/zips/freetype-infinality-2.4.12-20130514_01-x86_64.tar.bz2
# bunzip2 freetype-infinality-2.4.12-20130514_01-x86_64.tar.bz2
# tar xf freetype-infinality-2.4.12-20130514_01-x86_64.tar
# cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/freetype2
# make extract
# make patch
# cd work/freetype-2.4.12
# patch -p1 < ~/freetype-entire-infinality-patchset-20130514-01.patch
# cd ../../
# make install clean


######
# Fontconfig files:
######
# curl -O http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/zips/fontconfig-infinality-1-20130104_1.tar.bz2
# bunzip2 fontconfig-infinality-1-20130104_1.tar.bz2
# tar xf fontconfig-infinality-1-20130104_1.tar -C /etc/fonts
# cd /etc/fonts/infinality
- Edit infctl.sh to have the right path to bash (/usr/pkg/bin/bash for me)
# ./infctl.sh setstyle
- Choose infinality.


Now you need to get some fonts! From pkgsrc/fonts you can get:
- consolamono-ttf-20121116
- dejavu-ttf-2.34
- droid-ttf-20111115
- liberation-ttf-2.00.1
- linux-libertine-ttf-5.1.3
- ms-ttf-20020306nb5
- vera-ttf-1.10nb4
I got my Helvetica font from my Mac OS X install since it isn't in pkgsrc. (yet?)

Restart X and launch Firefox, everything should look much better now!

Now since we want EdgeBSD to provide a pleasant desktop experience, should I automate this in a port? Anybody interested in more visual improvements in general?

yrmt.

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Screenshot - 012014 - 21:28:21.png

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