On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Simon McFarlane <s...@desu.ne.jp> wrote:
> On 04/14/16 12:23, Matej Nanut wrote: > > Hello, > > > > OpenBSD's freetype library is built without the feature. > > > > If you have your source trees set up, you can rebuild it after > > uncommenting FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING in > > /usr/xenocara/lib/freetype/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h. > > > > Wow, That did the trick! I was afraid I'd never see beautiful fonts on > OpenBSD. > > The comment above says the feature is covered by Microsoft patents, and > is why it isn't enabled by default. Didn't those patents expire in 2010? > http://www.freetype.org/patents.html > > Thanks, > Simon > > That web-page says at the bottom, that it is updated on 25 August 2015, yet this option is not enabled yet in freetype's upstream git repo. I imagine the xenocara guys dcoppa@/mathhieu@/shadchin@ follows upstream. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
