From: "Simon Hepburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton wrote: > > > Are you seriously telling me that FreeType (which I _only_ have for support > > of my TTF fonts), as delivered by Debian, doesn't support anti-aliasing, > > and I have to recompile it? > > It's not a question of whether it supports AA or not, its whether it uses the > bytecode interpreter to do so. The current version in sid has the bytecode > interpreter turned on. See /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6 for more info.
That doesn't begin to answer the question. I'm not running FreeType from sid, I'm on 2.1.2-7 from testing. I can't see anything in /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6 that tells me anything about bytecode interpreters or antialiasing being either on or off - what is there is an, apparently intentionally, vague disclaimer that the bytecode interpreter may be an infringement of an Apple patent. So I ask again, "Is Debian really delivering a FreeType package incapable of supporting anti-aliasing?" - which is what the original poster seemed to believe was the situation. I don't plan to infringe any patents and, if the bytecode interpreter is necessary for AA, I'll drop FreeType. If antialiasing works even without the interpreter, then the original poster can't have been right that he needed to compile FreeType from source. -- derek