[vlc-devel] commit: quartztext: Disable as freetype is doing a better job than us. ( Pierre d'Herbemont )

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman
<d.hartman at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 16 sep 2008, at 09:14, git version control wrote:
>> vlc | branch: master | Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont at videolan.org>
>> | Tue Sep 16 09:17:22 2008 +0200|
>> [ff396357fa46f75b6182625b0bae1a55da039a9c] | committer: Pierre
>> d'Herbemont
>>
>> quartztext: Disable as freetype is doing a better job than us.
>
> I disagree. Freetype is significantly worse when there is no good
> fontconfig configured, and at least twice as slow. We developed the
> quartztext plugin for a reason.

Then revert and fix :)

We need to render the font with a decent effect, with a sufficiently
strong border.

Pierre.