[ft-devel] freetype.com

2010-02-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel

Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com

2010-02-23 Thread Graham Asher
Despicable domain squatting and negative advertising. Shame on them. Graham Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list

[ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter

2010-02-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, In Fedora rawhide I enabled the patented bytecode interpretter a while ago since the patents expired. I've received reports since that this has resulted in degraded rendering of some fonts. Apparently, from what I hear, with Medium hinting, the autohinter is not used even if the font

Re: [ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter

2010-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In Fedora rawhide I enabled the patented bytecode interpretter a while ago since the patents expired. I've received reports since that this has resulted in degraded rendering of some fonts. Apparently, from what I hear, with Medium hinting, the autohinter is not used even if the font

Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com

2010-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Stumbled upon freetype.com by accident. Have people seen this before? Interesting... Despicable domain squatting and negative advertising. Shame on them. Indeed! I've seen this the first time, and it seems that FreeType is a threat to them, especially since their `iType' product has the

Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com

2010-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Excuse me ,I don't understand why we need tell the slashdot.org people? Well, there is no `need'. Often, if a company gets bad press it is willing to change the issue. This was my idea. I can't tell you whether this is the right solution (probably not). I simply don't know

Re: [ft-devel] freetype.com

2010-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Excuse me ,I don't understand why we need tell the slashdot.org people? Another reason for my first reaction (this is, to contact slashdot) is the impudence of this negative advertisement. Up to now I've never seen such a thing, and it is probably worth to be seen by many people.