(The patent issue is with the freetype2 library's TT hinting. For patent reasons, my official distribution of PalmFontConv uses ft2 in autohint mode.)
I've ALWAYS changed the bytecode and Apple rendering on freetype on all of my systems, before I even install the Bitstream Vera or any other truetype fonts. The Apple rendering is SO much nicer than the Microsoft rendering of the same fonts.
What is "Apple rendering" and how do I turn it on? Is it also patent encumbered?
Then again, I'm a bit unique, with 20/5 vision and 6-7px fonts on 1400x1050 and 1600x1200 screen, for my normal work days. People lean really close in and squint just to read my screen, but I see it just fine.
I can see tiny things, too (e.g., I remember seeing paramecia in a jar, and I can read the OED compact edition), but it tires me.
Your idea is interesting though. I'm actually collecting a lot of fonts and related licensing bits to make "Font Packs" for download from the Plucker site for the 2.0 release.
Sounds good.
And I owe annotation code for 2.0.
Incidentally... I haven't heard from Mike or Robert O'Connor in a long time now (and the lists have been pretty quiet, though "tis the season" I guess).
And there is Adam from whom I haven't heard in more than a year.
I tried to contact Robert in the summer about relicensing of a couple of his icons in Plucker for use in some closed source stuff (ClieSkinner skins, to be precise). No word. (I ended up releasing the stuff under the GPL, which just means I need upload a multimegabyte "source" file containing Gimp xcf files for the images I'm using.)
Have you heard/seen from them at all? I'm getting a lot of people on irc asking about a newer version of Plucker Desktop, and Robert has the keys to that castle. I've built it before for a client in Spain, but it wasn't pretty, and I'd really prefer that he handle those pieces.
Last night I just found about Sunrise. (Why no announcement on plucker-dev? Or did I miss it?) With Sunrise and jPluck, is Plucker Desktop still very important? My feeling is that Plucker Desktop is the least loved part of Plucker, and many, many users prefer Sunrise and jPluck. Though I know Plucker Desktop is a bit better than jPluck at very large sites. (It's still not very good at it. A 200mb site with tens of thousands of pages needs about 1gb of RAM to pluck under WinXP.)
Alex
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Dr. Alexander R. Pruss
Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A.
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