Two of the three patents have already expired, which may be helpful.
Graham Asher
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The idea: From size 15 ALL fonts are drawn in a really satisfactory
manner as antialiasing has to and can be used at those sizes. The
problem is only with smaller sizes - glyphs are not clear enough or
wobbly. Let´s put together TrueType fonts and bitmap fonts (of
varying glyph widths).
Two of the three patents have already expired, which may be helpful.
that's not true, because law is a bit subtle here.
the patent expiration rules are now the following:
- if the patent was filed after 1995-06-7, its expiration term is 20
years after the filing date.
- if the was filed