On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:03:33AM +0100, A.Haq Abbad wrote: > Salam everyone > > Re: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.0/NEWS/view > > As you all might've heard, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode > interpreter have expired worldwide. > > Does that help small Arabic fonts under Linux in anyway? As at the moment, > they > don't look that nice :)
If the fonts are not manually hinted (which is a missive effort only a handful of fonts have undergone), it will not make any difference. > I hope Linux distro's didn't not enable it by default already! It is already on in Ubuntu (and I think Debian IIRC), not sure about other distros. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
