Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
On 2010-08-06 18:29, Phil Race wrote:
Well .. that is the very newest freetype but the doc is correct in that
its referring to 2.3
More precisely, it's referring to "2.3 or newer".
which was all that existed when it was written. Its rather hard to write
a document
that predicts the future.
However if you are on Linux then jdk will use the system freetype and some
distros are disabling the hinting for technical reasons.
I think the reason is that a lot of free fonts are not hinted so turning on
instructed hinting either didn't help or made them worse ..
Up to 2.3 the reason was that hinting was covered by patents, so it was
enabled by default. They expired a few months ago.
You are misinterpreting me. I am explaining why 2.4 != enabled
instructed hinting in all cases.
-phil.
