You may read about the patent issues here: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html Other than the significant improvement in rendering quality, it also noticeably improves overall rendering speed and responsiveness of the Gnome UI. Instructions on enabling it: http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0017.html On 3/16/07, Chu Jeang Tan <chujtan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since the topic has gone far from laptop. The key to good looking font -> recompile freetype2 with bytecode interpreter turned on. Search online, instructions for FC are all over. Note, this has nothing to do with anti aliasing or configurations.
-- Chu Jeang Tan chujtan@xxxxxxxxx