[Mageia-dev] why not disable bytecode interpreter in freetype2 ?

[Dimitrios Glentadakis]

Στις Τετάρτη 11 Μάιος 2011 05:57:07 Zé γράψατε:
> In mandriva sincepatent expiration in freetype, fonts display wasnt
> smoth anymore and appeared ugly fonts, this used to exist just in
> plf..
> 
> But since theres no patents issues pending, why not old rendering
> algorithms by default (disable bytecode interpreter), that way fonts
> will have a better rendering and look.
> 
> This is most true for guys that are used to use small fonts, for
> example im used to use Sans size 8, like its now in mageia, they dont
> look very good and also appear smaller that if using bytecode
> interpreter disabled, so to be able to have a good rendering font
> look, i always repackage freetype2.
> 
> Why not Mageia start using also bytecode interpreter disabled by default?
> 


I reported a wish here:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240



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Dimitrios Glentadakis