Le sam 11/05/2002 � 16:32, Danny Tholen a �crit : > On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:58 pm, you wrote: > > > But YANAL, and more importantly, you are not paying if it goes horribly > > > wrong. > Well, I was just going to commit myself for 1/10 of the cost for a re-examination > (about $ 2500), but after some research I think prior evidence is of no importance > in a re-examination by the US patent office. Very silly IMO. > > But does Mdk has lawyers? If so, they really should have a look. A document with the > ttf specs released by Apple in 1990 makes the last patent complete rubbish, and >questions the > other two, because you should not encourage the use of your patent by trying to make >it a standard.
I don't think we have lawyers (nor money) to work on that.. And we really don't want to start fighting with Apple on these problems.. > > > So is this patent the sole reason why true-type (non-antialiased) fonts > > look jaggy in Mandrake 8.2? That would mean that we are cooked. > yup > > Again my plea for European mirrors with this stuff, and a direct link in the >installer > to these hosts. Even SAMBA is threathened by MS patents now it seems. > > Slight improvement is perhaps possible. In the freetype2 src you find: > /src/truetype/ttinterp.c: > #undef NO_APPLE_PATENT > > defining this seems to disable the specific algorithm that is supposedly patented. > In other words: you do get a bytecode interpreter (ofcourse you have to enable > it first) with a few algoritms for font hinting, but not the patented ones. > > It is very font-dependent how this will look. I attach a screenshot of 4 MS-ttf > fonts enlarged with xmag. Do not use a zoomfactor when comparing them, because > zooming will affect how it looks. > > I think it looks slightly better, exept for some Arial glyphs with lots of diagonals >(this > is specifically where the algorithm applies) WDYT Fr�d�ric? Since you saw the problem with Arial fonts, you can understand why the Freetype developers didn't activate the bytecode interpreter.. And we can't either.. -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
