[ft-devel] Patented bytecode interpretter and fallback to autohinter

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi,

In Fedora rawhide I enabled the patented bytecode interpretter a while ago
since the patents expired.  I've received reports since that this has resulted
in degraded rendering of some fonts.

Apparently, from what I hear, with Medium hinting, the autohinter is not used
even if the font doesn't have any bytecode.

The desired behavior is to use the autohinter for any glyphs without bytecode
hints.

Please see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532

Is there any way we can resolve this?  Otherwise I'd have to turn it back off
again.

Thanks,
behdad