[gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for freetype that improves font rendering manifolds. So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the TrueType BC interpreter? -- Nilesh Govindarajan

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Somebody on twitter told me that Ubuntu uses a special patch for freetype that improves font rendering manifolds. So I rebuilt freetype with these useflags: +auto-hinter +bindist What is the difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread pk
On 2011-09-26 17:13, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the TrueType BC interpreter? As far as I know, the truetype byte code interpreter patent expired about 2 years ago... See:

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread pk
On 2011-09-26 17:13, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the TrueType BC interpreter? Here's some more info: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 September 2011 16:49, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: ...but don't take my word for it... If you really need to know for sure - contact a lawyer[1]. [1] IANAL :-) If you were, would you give your opinion freely on the internet? `s/would/could`? Since our system is set up so that one can

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter?

2011-09-26 Thread pk
On 2011-09-26 18:13, James Broadhead wrote: If you were, would you give your opinion freely on the internet? `s/would/could`? Well, you never know... ;-) Since our system is set up so that one can spend significant amounts of money just to find out whether something is or is not a