Feature changed by: Maxim Marinchenko (mmarinchenko) Feature #312817, revision 13 Title: advanced subpixel hinting in freetype2 openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Igor Raketov (furciferpardalis) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now that licensing issues seems to be solved (concerning patents expired) it would be really great if advanced subpixel hinting get enabled in forthcoming release 12.1 Relations: - Enable Sub-Pixel-Hinting (feature/id: https://features.opensuse.org/312673) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Every user will benefit from advanced subpixel hinting in freetype2 and will get more readable fonts as in the current installation. Discussion: #1: Shawn Rogers (67gta) (2011-09-25 03:31:18) The truetype bytecode patents have expired. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html 11.4 shipped with freetype 2.4 still stripped down. If freetype is being maintained and updated for 12.1 (currently at 2.4.6), then autohinting should work out of the box. Can anyone confirm this? + #2: Maxim Marinchenko (mmarinchenko) (2011-11-25 09:07:04) + Hello, guys & gals! + Ok, we have freetype2-devel package in 12.1 at version 2.4.7 currently + (see: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/freetype... + (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/freetype...) + ). But what about freetype package? It's currently at version 1.3.1 + (see: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/freetype...), + which completely unsupported in upstream - that's the reason of bad + fonts rendering in openSUSE! + I propose to move to freetype2 package by default. Is that possible? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312817