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Binary package hint: fontconfig
fontconfig-2.4.2-1.2ubuntu4 does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull
options for the autohinter.
When I ask fontconfig to use the authinter and specify hintstyle as hintslight,
hintmedium, or hintfull there is no perceptible difference on the screen.
Doing this on a similar Fedora 8 system shows perceptible differences with all
settings.
I also tried downloading and compiling freetype2 with the bytecode interpreter
forced "off" so the autohinter is always used. The font rendering is certainly
the autohinter but there is again no perceptible difference between hintslight,
hintmedium, and hintfull.
I suspect but cannot prove that this might be the result of the fontconfig
"hack" that was made to enable/disable the legacy LCD filter for monospaced
fonts in gutsy.
Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
** Affects: cairo
Importance: Low
Status: Confirmed
** Affects: cairo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
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fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200707
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