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Bug 1302781

Summary: subpixel rendering not working in RHEL 7
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Joe Wright <jwright>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: mkasik, ngalvin
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OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2016-01-29 11:10:45 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Joe Wright 2016-01-28 15:39:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Customer would like for us to to enable subpixel rendering by default.

It looks like the changelog for freetype indicates that this SHOULD be happening.
~~~
* Tue Jul 31 2007 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo> 2.3.5-2
  - Change spec file to permit enabling bytecode-interpreter and
    subpixel-rendering without editing spec file.
  - Resolves: 249986
~~~

But their users claim that we're not enabling by default when we build it.

--with subpixel rendering is not being set.


But, maybe the flag is being passed but the spec file isn't reflecting it?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. none
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Actual results:
subpixel rendering inactive

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2016-01-29 11:10:45 UTC
The patents on subpixel rendering owned by Microsoft are still valid and should expire in 2019-10-07 (according to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering):

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6219025
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6239783
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6307566
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6225973
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6243070
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6393145
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6421054
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6282327
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6624828

Looking at the individual patents you can see that Microsoft still pays maintenance fees.

I'm closing this with resolution cantfix.

Regards