On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 at 00:18, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:

> I wonder if someone who lives in a country without software patents
> could compile PalmFontConv against a freetype2 library that has TT
> hinting enabled, and then could run the Bitstream Vera font family
> through PalmFontConv to generate a nice set of antialiased Plucker fonts
> that we could all use.  (The patent issue is with the freetype2
> library's TT hinting.  For patent reasons, my official distribution of
> PalmFontConv uses ft2 in autohint mode.)

Is "TT hinting" sub-pixel rendering?  I was wondering how this would
interact with devices such as the T|T3, where the user can rotate the
fonts using an OS tool, not something internal to Plucker.

-alan

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