FYI: FreeType hinting is now enable by default

[Phil Race]

Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> 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".
>   

which was all that existed when it was written. Its rather hard to write 
a document
that predicts the future.
>   
>> 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.
>   

You are misinterpreting me. I am explaining why 2.4 != enabled 
instructed hinting in all cases.

-phil.