RE: [ft-devel] Status of TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING

[Turner, David]

Hello,

> > Alternately, is there any reasonable way to determine if a font
> > requires hinting to return a useful outline (aside from hard-coding
> > a list of known bad fonts)?
> 
> You might provide a user dialogue with a check box `if you see crap,
> try to activate this' which sets the unpatented hinting flag for this
> particular font.
> 

Another alternative is to detect that you're using MingLiu or one of
the few other fonts that require the unpatended hinting flag to display
properly. There aren't a lot of fonts like these, and I believe they
all come from DynaLab.

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)