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  1. Bug #210921
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 210921

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote : Re: [Bug 210921] Re: Fontconfig should default to full hinting

Alexander Sack wrote:
> arne, whats your thought on full hinting this round?
>
 I don't think we will ever enable full hinting system wide. The only
font in our repository which can profit from full hinting right now is
DejaVu, which we do use as a default font on the desktop. But many
languages cannot use DejaVu and need to use other fonts instead. For
those and any other font on the system full hinting would be a disadvantage.
We can set hinting to full selectively for DejaVu only (and any font
which comes with instructions) in the font package. However, I don't
know if this works correctly as I didn't see any visual difference on my
system when trying this. Need to investigate further.
Also, if you use a dpi setting higher than 125 or so, you may want to
disable hinting altogether.