I think that Ubuntu enables hinting on default. According to FreeType's docs/TRUETYPE the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro should be defined, should

I think that Ubuntu enables hinting on default. According to FreeType's docs/TRUETYPE the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro should be defined, should you want to enable patent encumbered parts. On a karmic box: $ apt-get source libfreetype6 $ grep -h TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE freetype-2.3.9/debian/patches-freetype/* -/* #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER */ +#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER