Attila wrote:
On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 23:06 Jan de Groot wrote:
Deactivating the patch can be done by fontconfig configuration, so you don't have to recompile freetype at all for this.
That's what i have done and i'm satisfied with it but Gerardo speaks about problems with kpdf and poppler when this patch is included. This is why i'm suprised about it and the freetype authors seems to be satisfied with the auto-hinting too.
Currently the only package afected are poppler* (or at least that I use/know). I was talking about kpdf, but this is an old example. In KDE4 Okular uses shared lib poppler, not a private copy. The same applies to Evince (from GNOME) So only poppler* is needed to be recompiled. Sample screenshots, can apreciate the problem: This is a Okular rendering a pdf document with the poppler* from Arch Linux: http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/screenshoots/okular-bad.png And this is with poppler* recompiled without bytecode freetype patch: ( or simply commenting the apropiate libs in poppler* :) ) http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/screenshoots/okular-good.png
As for the licensing: AFAIK even Debian ships with the bytecode interpreter enabled these days
The license is not my first intension and i think the most distributions activate the bytecode interpreter.
Still again, i only discuss and don't say "we have to do". -)
Exactly.
See you, Attila
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