Liberation fonts package.

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat May 12 02:00:50 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > I must say, while I appreciate the intent, these fonts do not have
> > good render hinting for Windows XP.  I will test them on Fedora 7 and
> > Ubuntu 7.04 later.
> 
> It wouldn't have good hinting anywhere. You might want to read the some 

Fedora's freetype won't use the hinting information anyway for patent reasons. 
Instead, it uses Freetype's autohinter, which doesn't need any hinting 
information. Only non-Freetype systems or Freetype systems with the autohinter 
turned off will render unhinted fonts in a really ugly way.

        Kevin Kofler




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