Font rendering, 2015

Rui Tiago Cação Matos tiagomatos at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 15:10:19 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> So, what's going on with this? My uneducated guess is that the
> "freeworld" package simply enables autohinting that we have off by
> default and does not contain any magic sauce. Is this correct?

AFAIK, the patent issues and what people on the internet asks for is
*not* about hinting. It's subpixel rendering/filtering[1].

Rui

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering


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