The problem is not with the LCD filter, it's whether the Ubuntu copy of freetype is changing the autohint style. When choosing each of the four options the fonts normally change their shapes in obvious ways. In Ubuntu gutsy, only the "none" and "full" buttons make any difference. Someone in gutsy changed the "medium" and "full" buttons to do nothing more than turn on and off the monospace lcd filter to keep things simple, but this appears to break the autohinting configuration. This could be due to the fact that Ubuntu normally ships with the autohinter disabled. In any case this needs to be fixed so that the buttons do what they say, that is, adjust autohinter hint styles.
In addition, manually editting ~/.fonts.conf to use the various hint styles does not seem to make any difference so this is therefore a problem with Ubuntu's fontconfig patches. -- fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200707 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
