From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 00:00:25 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1409 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 01 January 2007 Number 1409 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Freetype/2 - how useful? and other Firefox ramblings : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:12:58 +1100 (AEDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Freetype/2 - how useful? and other Firefox ramblings Hi all. I trust you enjoyed your Christmas, and are looking forward to a prosperous (or at least better) New Year! I have just "enjoyed" a demonstration of the usefulness of Freetype/2 from Innotek. About a week ago, before installing the latest Firefox 2.001, I had a little crash - some websites still do that to us, we know. I restarted, and restored the session, but the typeface/s were poor - almost unreadable to my aging eyes. I put up with it, hoping that 2.001 would fix thte problem, but it didn't. So now that I have had some time to think, I figured that re-installing Freetype from Innotek would be a good idea, and if it couldn't fix the problem, well, it wouldn't hurt! Off I went to www.innotek.de, found the Font engine under OpenOffice, and re-installed. I discovered afterwards, that I didn't need to repeat the download as I already had the 2.60Beta installer on my system. No reboot required, and now I don't hurt my eyes reading small web page type. So if any of you have been unsure, I offer a positive testimonial. Freetype/2 is used by Mozilla, OpenOffice and the Lucide Viewer (in beta). I am not sure where else, but the aim of the project is to totally substitute it for the current IBM font engine, and I can only say "Bring It On!" And rambling onto Firefox, I must say that the 2.001 release is worth getting. I have retained the 1.508/9 version for speed, and the Release 2 Candidate 2 for modernity, as the 2.00 release was heavy going. It would peg my CPU at 100% while loading and then while rendering, so those annoying pages which refresh every so often were a real pain. Likewise the pages with heavy graphics, and a large number of elements were like watching paint dry, or using a 300baud acoustic coupler! However the 2.001 release seems to have fixed most of the performance issues for me, and I am happy to recommend it. Ah, yes, OS/2-eCS - the Mark Twain operating system: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!" Happy New Year to all! Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------