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[Zhou Yi Chao <164640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to enable subpixel rendering on poppler and I found my
rendering result is suboptimal.  After gdbing into cairo, I am surprise
that cairo is still using the legacy filter as the "default".  To the
the situation even worse, cairo removed the interfaces to set the
lcdfiler (cairo_font_options_set_lcd_filter) because "they are too
specific to FreeType".

Well, maybe that is true.  But now how can I use the real Freetype
default filter (FIR5) in the newest cairo without pathcing it?  I think
maybe manually set a FcPattern is OK but I really do not want to
learn/invoke/rely Fontconfig just for setting a filter that should be
default.

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Title:
  Build Firefox 3 against a subpixel-patched cairo

Status in Fontconfig:
  Fix Released
Status in libcairo:
  Confirmed
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libcairo package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xulrunner-1.9 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

  In Ubuntu 7.10 and newer, Firefox 3.0 looks out of place with subpixel
  rendering enabled, due to the fact that it uses an unpatched, bundled
  version of Cairo.

  The patch should be ported to Cairo 1.5 and applied in the firefox-3.0
  package.

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