Huw D M Davies wrote:
The idea was to enable antialiasing if either the gasp table was
missing or if the gasp table tell us to do so. It seems unlikely that
a font designer would have gone to the trouble of adding hinting
instructions but not the tiny gasp table. Actually I couldn't find a
fon
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:53:09PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
...
> It also changes the logic on one line - I may be mistaken but it looked wrong
> to my eye:
>
> -if(!get_gasp_flags(physDev, &flags) || flags & GASP_DOGRAY)
> +if(get_gasp_flags(physDev, &flags) && (flags & GASP_DOGR
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:19:58AM +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> The only problem I see is with people having a self-compiled FreeType
> library with hinting enabled. Why cripple their configuration too by default ?
>
> Is there no way to detect at compile / run-time what kind of FreeType
> library
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 21:46 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Could you enlighten me by listing those "good reasons" here? I suspect
> that the real "problem" with licensing the patented technologies in
> Linux is a general stance of GPL and Linux crowd regarding software
> patents making them "non-
"Dimi Paun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry Dmitry, but to me it seems ridiculous to argue against a fairly
> well known fact. The AA TrueType fonts has been an ongoing problem for
> _years_ with no solution in sight, whereas our Wine 0.9 release should
> be available in a matter of weeks. Give
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:17 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>
> 1. As far as I know licensing patented hinting technology from Apple
> is a 1 time cost, and not huge amount of money at all.
This makes no difference, as it will not allow others to redistribute
the distro, which makes it a non-optio
"Mike Hearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In any case if a Wine user wants to see correctly displayed TrueType
> > fonts with correct document layout (as it depends on the rendered glyph
> > metrics) he/she has to use patented FreeType. And that's for sure the
> > problem of a Linux distro vendo
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
[...]
The only problem I see is with people having a self-compiled FreeType
library with hinting enabled. Why cripple their configuration too by default ?
Yes, why cripple Wine for people using a real Linux distribution like
Debian. ;-)
--
Francois Go
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:21:21 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> That's not a Wine problem, that's a correct behaviour.
This is a reasonable argument, but for such a user visible and annoying
problem I think we have to make this a special case.
> I'd argue that it's not a Wine problem/bug at all
I
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:19:58AM +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> The only problem I see is with people having a self-compiled FreeType
> library with hinting enabled. Why cripple their configuration too by default ?
>
> Is there no way to detect at compile / run-time what kind of FreeType
> library
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:42:34PM -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Bottom line we have to fix. Users started to complain immediately after
> 20050930
> was out. Even if it's not 100% correct we still cant cripple the Wine with
> such
> an ugly fonts.
The only problem I see is with people having
Saturday, October 1, 2005, 10:21:21 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> I'd argue that it's not a Wine problem/bug at all, we can do nothing to
> improve
> hinting support in FreeType. And crippling Crossover (by making it differ with
> WineHQ for no good reason) because of that is not a way to go IMO.
"Mike Hearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a serious problem with Wine 0.9 as-is, namely that we now respect
> Windows antialiasing settings.
That's not a Wine problem, that's a correct behaviour.
> If you have a patented bytecode hinter enabled FreeType, things look OK:
>
> http://pl
There is a serious problem with Wine 0.9 as-is, namely that we now respect
Windows antialiasing settings.
If you have a patented bytecode hinter enabled FreeType, things look OK:
http://plan99.net/~mike/files/hinted-fonts.jpg
but if you don't (like 99% of Linux users):
http://www.republika
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