>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes: Alan> On Sunday 27 October 2002 7:58 am, David Purton wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> What might have caused fonts to drop in quality after the last >> dist-upgrade (libfreetype6 maybe)? Alan> I think there is a licencing issue with freetype - there is a Alan> compilation option which has had to be turned off due to patent Alan> issues with Apple (?). It has to do with the bytecode interpreter used for hinting TrueType fonts. The maintainter has apparently turned it back on in the latest version in Sid (2.1.2-10), but it may disappear at some point in the future. Alan> You can always download the source and rebuild it yourself with Alan> this option turned on. There is an article in the Register Alan> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html about it. The author confuses antialiasing and hinting, which does not give me much confidence in the article. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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