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  1. Bug #54776
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 54776

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

On debian, the workaround of enabling subpixel rendering in ~/.fonts.conf didn't work, maybe because it doesn't apply the patches from fedora cvs pasted above. (It's maybe better that way, because it didn't make any sense).
As Bernd Schubert said in the bug report, light hinting (=slow=medium) is hardcoded in openoffice.
Hardcoding normal hinting (=full) works fine.

I installed his packages from there:
http://www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/tc/usr/bernd/downloads/openoffice/
I'm nearly sure he just applied his patch from there:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/normal_hinting.patch?bug=385798;msg=69;att=1
Though, a confirmation is required.
Anyway, his packages result in nice fonts for me, both with or without antialiasing.

That said, having font settings hardcoded isn't acceptable, because users have very different font preferences.