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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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