Hi Xoze, ClearType is a tech. for subpixel rendering that targets LCD screens, isn't it? Xft/Cairo patching is then a different feature for Fedora 14, than the bci vm being turned on by default in FreeType. Regards, -Ilyes Gouta On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > Are Xft/Cairo patched for ClearType ? <http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html> > > -- > If less is more than more, most is more than less. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
