Am Samstag, 29. August 2009 schrieb Jay Mistry:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jan
Ritzerfeld<suse@mailinglists.jan.ritzerfeld.net> wrote: [...]
Subpixel hinting is disabled in the freetype2 package of openSUSE because of Microsoft's ClearType patent: http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelHinting AFAIK Ubuntu enables subpixel hinting and the bytecode interpreter anyway.
HTH Jan
The instructions at the link you gave fixed the problem; I had been looking for a fix since last year, [...]
IIRC, the font mess startet with SuSE Linux 8.2 in 2003: the bytecode interpreter was disabled because of Apple's patents. Since then, you have to fiddle about with freetype in order to get good looking fonts.
Thanks,
You're welcome! Gruß Jan -- Habit is stronger than reason. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org