Re: patch for grid-fitting on Solaris

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> (See attached file: patch_grid_fitting)

+#if defined(sparc) && defined(sun)
+               /* On Solaris/Sparc grid-fitting the outline produces gibberish
+                  output for some font outlines with freetype-2.1.2 */
+               load_flags |= FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING;
+#endif

This is rather ugly. Not only is it OS dependant, but it's also 
freetype 2.1.2 dependant. Can't we just require a fix in freetype?

Or if it's worth disabling hinting in other cases as well, maybe it 
should be a configuration option.