On 2010-08-06 18:29, Phil Race wrote: > Well .. that is the very newest freetype but the doc is correct in that > its referring to 2.3 >
More precisely, it's referring to "2.3 or newer". > However if you are on Linux then jdk will use the system freetype and some > distros are disabling the hinting for technical reasons. > > I think the reason is that a lot of free fonts are not hinted so turning on > instructed hinting either didn't help or made them worse .. > Up to 2.3 the reason was that hinting was covered by patents, so it was enabled by default. They expired a few months ago.
