"Dimi Paun" dimi@lattica.com wrote:
Sorry Dmitry, but to me it seems ridiculous to argue against a fairly well known fact. The AA TrueType fonts has been an ongoing problem for _years_ with no solution in sight, whereas our Wine 0.9 release should be available in a matter of weeks. Given the short time frame, it's not an option to change they way the world works to conform to our liking.
It's just not gonna happen. At most we can hope for is to piss a lot of people off and look like we don't have a sense of reality.
It looks like FreeType has some bug fixes in that area, at least I've found this one in the changelog:
LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 - Another serious bug in handling TrueType hints caused many distortions. It has been introduced in version 2.1.8, and it is highly recommended to upgrade.
There are some other fixes in hinting handling including autohinter bug fixes, so it's worth to upgrade to the latest/CVS FreeType and see if it helps Wine as well.
Have you asked your Linux vendor to enable/license truetype hinter in FreeType? If not yet, it's time to do so.
This has been brought up many times (at least on RH related lists). It is not an option, and for good reasons. Let's just deal with it, and run like bandits :)
Could you enlighten me by listing those "good reasons" here? I suspect that the real "problem" with licensing the patented technologies in Linux is a general stance of GPL and Linux crowd regarding software patents making them "non-free".