Re: [ft] Idea for way of enabling subpixel hinting

[David Turner]

Hello Rafal,

unfortunately, implementing your idea means that we would be distributing
patent-infringing code, even if the configuration option is not enabled.

the current scheme is really the only reasonable alternative, due to the
current patent regime. Blame it on the laws, not the technology.

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:13:58 +0200, "Rafal Milecki" <address@hidden> said:
> Hello,
> 
> As far as I know subpixel hinting is disabled if I compile freetype2
> using default configuration. It's because of patents. Because of this
> same reason the most of distros provide freetype with subpixel hinting
> disabled.
> 
> As the result if someone is using freetype provided with his/her
> distro and want to enable subpixel hinting it is necessary to
> recompile freetype. It makes all the operation quite comlicated and
> avaliable for advanced Linux-users only.
> 
> I think I would be nice if every freetype user could enable subpixel
> hinting just editing some text file. So we would kept subpixel hinting
> disabled by default but it would be much easier to enable it. No more
> compiling, installing. Just editing one line in one file.
> 
> Is my idea possible to realize?
> 
> -- 
> Rafa&#322; Mi&#322;ecki