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  1. Bug #54776
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Comment 24 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 don't see a difference in these; is anti-aliasing turned off by default for KDE?

No it isn't, but does it matter?
And you really don't see the difference? It's the difference between ugly and beautiful fonts.
Though, you're right, this screenshot is different than the others. First, there is no antialiasing in openoffice and kde. Second hinting seems enabled for openoffice fonts.
The problem here is it isn't the same hinting. Openoffice fonts use autohinting, but every other apps use native hinting.
Anyway, openoffice should use all fontconfig settings (in /etc/fonts/ , ~/.fonts.conf and Xft resources) and use them, instead of ignoring them all.