Comment 7 for bug 210921

Pascal, I found this bug report through you blog post, FYI.

I'd like to add some counterweight here, but I'm not sure if I'm making assumptions. Is changing the hinting option in the appearance control panel the same as switching those symlinks?

Because setting the hinting to full there actually makes fonts look rather blocky in my case, even squished together. I've attached a screenshot for comparison.

Could be that I tried to work around the problem by picking a different font, rather than a different hinting setting. The text in that screenshot is all in Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Typewriter.

Besides the slight hinting, I also have sub-pixel rendering on and set to RGB. But I'm not sure what other settings matter in this case.