Font rendering in F13

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi Xoze,

ClearType is a tech. for subpixel rendering that targets LCD screens, isn't it?

Xft/Cairo patching is then a different feature for Fedora 14, than the
bci vm being turned on by default in FreeType.

Regards,
-Ilyes Gouta

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez
<xose.vazquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> early in the F13 cycle, we enabled the bytecode interpreter in our
>> freetype package, since the patents on that have expired last fall.
>> Unfortunately, it turned out that many free fonts don't actually benefit
>> from this, and actually look worse with the bci. The reason for that is
>> that without the bci, freetype uses its autohinter on all fonts, but
>> with the bci turned on, it only applies hints to fonts which have them,
>> and leaves other fonts alone.
>
> Are Xft/Cairo patched for ClearType ? <http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html>
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