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cairo package

  1. Bug #161058
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 161058

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In , Bugs-freedesktop (bugs-freedesktop) wrote :

(In reply to comment #13)
> The bottom line is: why not use fontconfig for everything,

Fontconfig doesn't know whether the text is being rendered to an LCD screen or a printer, so fontconfig needs to be told subpixel order and whether hinting is appropriate.

Problems happen when fontconfig rules blindly override such information (bug 17722, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105797), as well as when apps/toolkits blindly override fontconfig patterns (this bug).