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Re: [developers] Freetype 2.4.0 and patents
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: [developers] Freetype 2.4.0 and patents
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:12:12 +0300
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:03:33AM +0100, A.Haq Abbad wrote:
> Salam everyone
>
> Re: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.0/NEWS/view
>
> As you all might've heard, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode
> interpreter have expired worldwide.
>
> Does that help small Arabic fonts under Linux in anyway? As at the moment, they
> don't look that nice :)
If the fonts are not manually hinted (which is a missive effort only a
handful of fonts have undergone), it will not make any difference.
> I hope Linux distro's didn't not enable it by default already!
It is already on in Ubuntu (and I think Debian IIRC), not sure about
other distros.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer