"Mike Hearn" mike@plan99.net wrote:
In any case if a Wine user wants to see correctly displayed TrueType fonts with correct document layout (as it depends on the rendered glyph metrics) he/she has to use patented FreeType. And that's for sure the problem of a Linux distro vendor who must take care of it.
As it costs money per unit, and most Linux distros don't, I guess we won't be seeing hinter enabled distros anytime soon.
Just 2 comments to the above quote:
1. As far as I know licensing patented hinting technology from Apple is a 1 time cost, and not huge amount of money at all.
2. Europe has said no software patents, so I see this thread a bit rediculus when most peolple who argues for crippling Wine instead of enabling the hinter live in Europe.
Have you asked your Linux vendor to enable/license truetype hinter in FreeType? If not yet, it's time to do so.