On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> > Are you seriously telling me that FreeType (which I _only_ have for support
> > of my TTF fonts), as delivered by Debian, doesn't support anti-aliasing,
> > and I have to recompile it?
>
> It's not a question of whether it supports AA or not, its whether it uses the
> bytecode interpreter to do so.
Read /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/PATENTS for some more details on why it's
disabled. http://freetype.org/pantents.html (IIRC) has the full story.
> The current version in sid has the bytecode interpreter turned on.
Are you sure?
/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.Debian.gz:
freetype (2.1.2-8) unstable; urgency=low
* CVS updates as of 2002-10-07
* Applied David Chester's ft-slight patch. Thanks to Roger So for the
suggestion. (Closes: Bug#163900)
* Turned off the bytecode interpreter.
-- Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:00:18 +0800
-rob
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