On Friday, 13 May 2011 11:12:41 Zé wrote: > 2011/5/13 Zé <mmode...@gmail.com>: > > 2011/5/13 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dgl...@gmail.com>: > >> Στις Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2011 00:39:55 Zé γράψατε: > >>> 2011/5/12 Dick Gevers <dvgev...@xs4all.nl>: > >>> > On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:20:39 +0200, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote about
> >>> perl -pi -e 's|#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER|/\* > >>> #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER \*/|' > >>> include/freetype/config/ftoption.h > >>> > >>> > >>> dont forget to also increase Release to avoid conflicts with existant > >>> freetype2, and then build the package. > >> > >> Why do all these things when you can simply add an entry in the > >> font.conf file ? > > > > Thats a fact, but hat should happen is that freetype2 should have > > bytecode interpreter disabled by default, since so far users prefer > > it. > > Seams Fedora choosed to finally fix it, it reverted freetype2 with a > patch to disable bytecode interpreter. -> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532 No, this is not what is covered in this bug report. Firstly, here are the non-problems: 1)The bytecode interpreter *can* make fonts look better, *if* they have hinting in the fonts. Not all ttf fonts have hinting, but AFAIK all the MS fonts *do* have hinting. So, historically, the recommended approach was to use the PLF freetype *if* you had imported MS fonts (e.g. from a dual-boot Windows installation). 2)The Freetype autohinter was implemented later, and improves things for unhinted fonts, but hinted fonts still looked better with the bytecode interpreter. This is the problem: 3)If the bytecode interpreter was enabled, auto-hinting was disabled (or, could be, for 'medium' and 'heavy' hinting settings) for unhinted fonts. The Fedora bug isn't about disabling the bytecode interpreter, but by still allowing auto-hinting for unhinted fonts if the bytecode interpreter. *This* is the right fix. Your insistence to *disable* the bytecode interpreter (leaving users with *no* options, in case they need hinted fonts) is the wrong fix. But, thanks for the pointer to the bug, which points to the patches. > Why dont we also do the same thing? > > Since theres users complaining about it, why not solve it once for all? Regards, Buchan