Font hinting problems solved - sort of?

2002-05-09 Thread Phil Messenger
Hi,
You're probably aware that by default the font hinting with antialiased
fonts in OpenOffice leaves a lot to be desired. The font FAQ indicates
that this is because of the Apple patent problems with Freetype. Still,
I've discovered that it's fairly trivial to work aroud this without
actually modifying anything or rebuilding OpenOffice. This obviously
depends on you having a freetype library on your system which does have
autohinting and the bytecode interpreter enabled.

Simply:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

before executing 'openoffice' results in nicely hinted fonts.

Without:

http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/without.png

With:

http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/with.png

Phil.




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Re: Font hinting problems solved - sort of?

2002-05-09 Thread Peter Novodvorsky

Really cool. Thanks.

Phil Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi,
   You're probably aware that by default the font hinting with antialiased
 fonts in OpenOffice leaves a lot to be desired. The font FAQ indicates
 that this is because of the Apple patent problems with Freetype. Still,
 I've discovered that it's fairly trivial to work aroud this without
 actually modifying anything or rebuilding OpenOffice. This obviously
 depends on you having a freetype library on your system which does have
 autohinting and the bytecode interpreter enabled.

 Simply:

 export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

 before executing 'openoffice' results in nicely hinted fonts.

 Without:

 http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/without.png

 With:

 http://www.btinternet.com/~philmes/oo-freetype/with.png

 Phil.




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