FYI: FreeType hinting is now enable by default

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On 2010-08-06 18:29, Phil Race wrote:
> Well .. that is the very newest freetype but the doc is correct in that
> its referring to 2.3
> 

More precisely, it's referring to "2.3 or newer".

> 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 ..
> 

Up to 2.3 the reason was that hinting was covered by patents, so it was
enabled by default. They expired a few months ago.