Having this enabled is a _very_ nice feature -- if you use properly hinted fonts. According to the freetype website, all patents have expired worldwide since May 2010.<br />
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The only reason for this still beeing disabled I can think of, is that all the fonts supplied with 6.x (actually all "free" fonts I know of) are _not_ properly hinted -- which makes things looking really ugly if this feature is turned on.<br />
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But everyone can still get the 'Microsoft Webfonts' perfectly legally and for free. They _are_ properly hinted and the difference is _huge_: Everything looks crisp on minimal space -- just like in the old days before OS X and Vista came out with these disgusting smeared fonts that Redhat reproduces. ("Perfectly" to me.)<br />
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Is this something for 'CentOS Plus'? One only has to rebuild with the existing spec file with '--with bytecode_interpreter' added.<br />
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I'm offering to maintain this if I can use your build system. It should be easier than what I'm doing since 5.x already, especially because I always need both 64- and 32-bit versions.
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