[Freetype] Autohinting?

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Hello, is anyone home?  :-)

I just subscribed to the list to learn more about freetype.  I haven't 
seen any traffic yet, so I wonder if there's really any activity here?

Ok, so here's my question:

I have recently become very interested in freetype because I am a Linux 
desktop user, and a user of Star Office/OpenOffice as well.  However, 
truetype fonts still look crummy in these programs, except for the 
truetypes that are included with SO.  (There are no fonts included with 
OO.)  I have learned that the freetype2 lib, with the bytecode 
interpreter enabled can fix the problem, and can make the Linux font 
presentation fully professional!  Trouble is, I live in the USA and 
can't use the bytecode interpreter :'-(

What's the likelyhood that the autohinting module of freetype can be 
eventually made to render TT fonts without using the bytecode 
interpreter, just as well as if the bytecodes were being used?

Thanks for comments!

P.S.  Man, nobody knows very much about fonts on the usual Linux 
newsgroups!  General questions get answered, but get into hairy 
specifics, and posts just don't get any replies.
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