FYI: FreeType hinting is now enable by default

[Phil Race]

Well .. that is the very newest freetype but the doc is correct in that 
its referring to 2.3

However if you are on Linux then jdk will use the system freetype and some
distros are disabling the hinting for technical reasons.

I think the reason is that a lot of free fonts are not hinted so turning on
instructed hinting either didn't help or made them worse ..

-phil.

On 8/6/2010 2:02 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> Contrary to what is stated here
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#freetype
>
> byte code hinting is now enable by default since 2.4.0
>
> http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html#release-freetype-2.4.0
>
>