[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Just in case someone cares about poor freetype 2.0 users

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Sep 7 15:36:14 CEST 2002


On Monday 02 September 2002 23:30, Andreas Hess wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:33:14PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > > I can't see the case in forcing something that actually isn't needed,
> > > as freetype 2.1. I think most distros still come with freetype 2.0
> > > packages and mplayer works just fine with freetype 2.0. So why should
> >
> > Yes and I was that forced 2.0 support.
> > But finally it turned out that 2.0 has some bugs causing the ft code to
> > disable itself, due to bogus fontsize->pixelsize conversion. See my
> > bugreport, atmos and iive got the same error yesterday.
> > This bug should be fixed first, if even possible.
>
> Hmm, I haven't experienced any problems with freetype 2.0.9
It's ok for me if you require min 2.0.9 for now, btw. my freetype setup was 
severely strange before, because I had about three different 2.0.x in 
different places. 2.1.x was only a know-to-be-working startpoint, we now need 
to pinpoint which version is still buggy.

> Andreas

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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