Re: [Freetype] FT and Apple patent

[David Turner]

Nir Rostoker wrote:
> Hi !
> In Free Type explanation of the issue of Apple's patent or Anti-aliasing
> byte codes, there is an example of the influence 
> of configure Free type to work with their patent. 
> I have noticed that the affects are quite sever, for instance W become there
> actually Bold when its not supposed to, however on several test I have done
> with Free Type with anti-aliasing, I haven't noticed such affects. 
>
> How crucial, as far as you know, for LCD with resolution of 72 X 72 Dpi ? 
>
>
> For the example with the "W" which become bold:
> http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
>
> Thanks,
> Nir
>
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Hi Nir,

you'd better experiment with the code yourself to see what kind
of "damage" this will inflict to your fonts. You should try to
#define NO_APPLE_PATENTS in "src/truetype/ttinterp.c" and recompile
the library to generate glyphs that look like the examples on
the patents page..

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)