Comment 14 for bug 318478

(In reply to comment #10)
> Perhaps the patch isn't correct, but I'd like to confirm this as a problem.
> There's also a launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/318478
> Basically, a user goes into their system, configures it to use font hinting a
> certain way, then opens up a program in Wine and finds that it isn't working.

In order to enable hinting in Freetype it's necessary to recompile it.
Freetype doesn't have a run-time option to turn on/off hinting. And no,
bytecode interpreter and autohinter are different things in Freetype with
very different results.

> How does Windows tell apps to use different font settings? I'm pretty sure
> Windows has a centralized control panel for this similar to the one for fonts
> already on the system.

It's apps who tell what font attributes they would like to have.

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2009-March/074261.html
So it's OK to query the global antialiasing setting (on or off).