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Re: Freetype with the patented hinter in sarge



Hello

Neilen Marais (<nmarais@snowisp.com>) wrote:

> I'd like to use the patented hinter code with freetype. AFAIK the
> software patents don't affect me in SA. In the past I think the
> freetype package did use the patented hinter. After a recent sarge
> update the quality of my fonts definitely changed for the worse.

I don't think it was disabled. Try to run

dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig

and play with the possible settings. I selected "native" for the first
question, "never" for the second (I use a CRT) and chose not to use
bitmap fonts by default.

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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