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  1. Bug #54776
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 54776

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Xavier (chantry-xavier) wrote : Re: [Edgy] font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1

I just find out something that doesn't make any sense from an user POV.
I created a .fonts.conf file which enables subpixel rendering, and now openoffice menu looks much better to me.
But it gives the same result as using "Best Contrast" in gnome, which is Grayscale antialiasing with full hinting. There is no subpixel rendering. If I try to only enable antialiasing and full hinting in fonts.conf, it doesn't work. Subpixel needs to be enabled (rgba sets to rgb), and it's enough.
So to sum up, for openoffice to look better, you need to enable an option that isn't used by openoffice.

So there are several issues:
- openoffice behaves weirdly to fontconfig settings (other apps work fine with just the Xft resources, and the fonts rendering match the settings)
- no subpixel rendering? (didn't manage to enable it)
- still no native hinting? (I believe it's still using autohinting, but I'm less positive on this one)