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Old 03-11-2014, 12:26 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
The main issue stems from the fact that the default renderer (Amazon's FreeType build) badly chokes on some fonts for no apparent reason. If you get through that, the hard part is over . (And if you don't, using an FT override is usually a pretty good workaround, but has other implications that need to be taken care of).
I'm actually kind of curious about Amazon's font rendering engine. On the software licenses page, they list both Monotype's iType and the open source Freetype. I wonder why they are paying Monotype if they are using Freetype already?
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