Hi, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:28:36 +0800 DingLi(丁力) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Agfa Font Compression(.ac3) >http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Sept_29/ai_19792516 >http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6031622.html
Thank you very much for providing the concrete patent info. I think MicroType font compression technology you referred is ISO/IEC 14496-18, and there would be market requirement around moving-picture codecs. You can find a comment in ttgload.c: 164 /*************************************************************************/ 165 /* */ 166 /* The following functions are used by default with TrueType fonts. */ 167 /* However, they can be replaced by alternatives if we need to support */ 168 /* TrueType-compressed formats (like MicroType) in the future. */ 169 /* */ 170 /*************************************************************************/ At present, MicroType is not supported. I guess (some of) FreeType developers would be interested in, but I'm afraid it won't be supported as far as the patents are permitted by Agfa to implement under FTL or GPLv2, or, until the day it is expired (2017?). Yet I've not checked how ISO/IEC 14496-18 describes about the patent issues. Regards, mpsuzuki _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
