Hi, Will the bytecode interpreter in freetype be enabled for Fedora 14? -Ilyes Gouta On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our > freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall. > Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit > from this, and actually look worse with the bci. The reason for that is > that without the bci, freetype uses its autohinter on all fonts, but > with the bci turned on, it only applies hints to fonts which have them, > and leaves other fonts alone. > > Behdad investigated the situation, and we have a plan to fix this, but > doing it properly requires enhancements in multiple places (freetype, > fontconfig, pango), and will not be ready in time for F13. > > Therefore, we decided to turn the bci off again until the necessary > changes are in place to use it only on fonts which benefit from it. This > change went into freetype-2.3.11-3.fc13. > > If your fonts look subtly different tomorrow, this is why... > > > Matthias > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
