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*#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER*/ usr/freetype-2.1.10/include/freetype/configĪnd right-click/open-as-text the file ftoption.h You will see about 6 subdirs and 10 files. Navigate up then into /usr and click to extract the downloaded source code archive into a new subdir You should check the integrity of the download, but I didn't, since I still don't know how to check filesums other than md5. For Puppies 2.14 and newer, get FreeType 2.3.5 or newer.ĭownload any of the three source packages, into subdirectory /usr/ The first thing to do is, download a sourcecode package of FreeType.įor Puppies up to 2.13, get FreeType 2.1.10, the last version in the 2.1 series.

You are otherwise satisfied that you are not under legal threat from Apple Computer to be sued for turning on the ByteCode Interpreter in FreeType. You are in a country where the remaining patent does not apply ģ. In what follows, I am going to assume that you have read the above-cited web page, you understand the legal issues, and that eitherġ. The best page that I have seen, as far as explaining the patent issue surrounding TrueType and BCI hinting, is This sad truth holds for all fonts that I have tested, both Microsoft and DejaVu as well as others. Instead, they rely on a function-clone which the people have developed, which they call 'unpatented autohinting' or 'FreeType autohinting.' Unpatented autohinting is better than no hinting at all, but my eyes tell me it just isn't as good as BCI hinting. However, since there is a key patent (originally there were three patents, but two of these crossed the 17-year term-of-patent threshold and thus presumably expired in May 2006 the third will expire in May 2009) held by Apple on ByteCode Interpreter hinting, which I will call BCI hinting from now on, very few Linux distros come with a FreeType library which has BCI hinting compiled in. The main thing which prevents Puppy (and every other Linux) from having as high of font quality as Windows and the Mac is this: OpenType and TrueType fonts are designed as glyphs and rendering hints these glyphs and hints are translated into screen instructions by a ByteCode Interpreter function which is in the FreeType font matching library.

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