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The funny part is that all the pieces (FreeType, HarfBuzz, Pango) are really well done, just FreeType isn't tweaked properly. :/
by naner 16y ago
The funny part is that all the pieces (FreeType, HarfBuzz, Pango) are really well done, just FreeType isn't tweaked properly. :/
- macco 16y agoWhat do you mean, with tweaked properly? Tweaked by developer oder user? BTW I think the droid fonts and dejaWeb look fucking awesome on my loptop. Much better than the fonts on my Windows maschine at work
- nailer 16y agoTweaked by the packager, who thinks the hinting patents are still valid and hence disables decent hinting during compilation.
- neves 16y agoHow do I configure it myself? Do you have a reference?
- nailer 16y agoModify the Debian packaging files to provide the correct compilation options - sorry I'm not experienced with this as I've only made RPMs before =- but it should be pretty easy to figure out.
- noste 16y agoI think that Ubuntu enables hinting on default. According to FreeType's docs/TRUETYPE the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro should be defined, should you want to enable patent encumbered parts. On a karmic box: $ apt-get source libfreetype6 $ grep -h TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE freetype-2.3.9/debian/patches-freetype/* -/* #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER */ +#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
- naner 16y agoYeah, Windows XP's ClearType does things very badly. I was referring to this article that was posted in a different thread: http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/ http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/