Re: [Dri-devel] Colored truetype fonts rendered in multiple colors

[Keith P. <ke...@ke...>]

> The problem is that text rendered in a colored TrueType font is actually
> displayed in a nasty mutli-colored way.  The problem is best described
> with a screen shot:
> 
> http://atari.saturn5.com/~jwb/text-color.gif

Within the X server, there is no functional difference in the rasterization
of fonts from different rasterizers, they're all reduced to 1-bit images.
Where there are differences is in the selection of the process with which 
to render the glyphs which depends on global characteristics of the font, 
something which the different rasterizers may well have differences in.

In any case, the bug certainly doesn't lie in the DRI code, if you can 
verify this with the XFree86 CVS bits, we'd have an easier time fixing the 
underlying problem.  It may well be that the DRI tree caught a version of 
XFree86 with bugs related to text rendering.

ke...@ke...	 XFree86 Core Team		SuSE, Inc.