On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:56:14PM -0500, Infinality wrote: > like OpenSUSE are planning on using subpixel hinting by default now that it's Hmm, I have packaged fontconfig-infinality for users that are able to compile Freetype with subpixel rendering. We surely cannot ship this library with subpixel hinting support compiled in if this is covered by patents as described for example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#Patents So strict lawyer's clarification is needed here. > in Freetype. Other distros have packages that are available too. More people > will likely be using subpixel hinting now that it's in Freetype, so having > documentation as to "what settings do what" might be good. If you need me to Definitely. > help you out with that, I'd be more than willing. I do have my git repo of > "fontconfig-infinality" which contains TT fonts that I know work well with > subpixel hinting. Perhaps that could be somehow incorporated into fontconfig > itself, now that subpixel hinting is in Freetype?? Yes. I guess it would be great something like two "styles" (using your language from fontconfig-infinality) at least for linux one using subpixel hinting and one that doesn't. What do you think? Thanks a lot for you work, Petr
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