On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote: > 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.
Read /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/PATENTS for some more details on why it's disabled. http://freetype.org/pantents.html (IIRC) has the full story. > The current version in sid has the bytecode interpreter turned on. Are you sure? /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.Debian.gz: freetype (2.1.2-8) unstable; urgency=low * CVS updates as of 2002-10-07 * Applied David Chester's ft-slight patch. Thanks to Roger So for the suggestion. (Closes: Bug#163900) * Turned off the bytecode interpreter. -- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 02:00:18 +0800 -rob
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