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[Mathew Hodson <mathew.hodson@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 161058 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161058

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 200707
   fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 161058
   some ~/.fonts.conf settings do no override desktop-wide gnome settings (hinting style)

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Title:
  different hintstyle issue

Status in Cairo Graphics Library:
  Confirmed
Status in cairo package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'd like to render my fonts in different hintstyles.

  To be precise, I have chinese font and western language fonts. For the
  chinese font, I'd like it to be rendered in hintfull, but for other
  fonts, I'd prefer hintslight.

  Ok, I configured in the fontconfig file, but it didn't make any
  change. All the fonts are in the same hintstyle, depending on the
  configuration in  gnome-appearance-properties.

  I googled for quite a long time and finally I got one solution.

  In the file cairo-ft-font.c, in function _cairo_ft_options_merge, just
  comment the following line:

  // if (options->base.hint_style == CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT)

  and recompile, now everything works fine. The fonts are rendered
  according to the hintstyles configured in fontconfig.

  I don't know if this is really a bug of libcairo. If I'm wrong, please
  accept my apology.

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