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How to enable the TrueType native hinter if you need it
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The TrueType bytecode interpreter is disabled in all public releases
of the FreeType packages for patents reasons (see
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html for more details).
However, many Linux distributions do enable the interpreter in the
FreeType packages (DEB/RPM/etc.) they produce for their platforms. If
you are using TrueType fonts on your system, you most probably want to
enable it manually by doing the following:
- open the file "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h"
- locate a line that says:
#undef TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
- change it to:
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
These steps must be done _before_ compiling the library.
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