Comment 4 for bug 61331
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| Xavier (chantry-xavier) wrote Re: [Bug 61331] Re: [edgy] extremely bold ttf fonts in kubuntu (edgy) | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
I do not understand what you mean by "settings work".
It's the developpers who choose settings and offer them to the user,
settings just mean what they want to. Settings work when they do what
the developper meant them to do, and now it's the case.
Slight and Medium hinting are supposed to look the same, and Full
hinting is different.
I'm not sure if it's directly related, but cairo used to have a
different behavior than xft, it didn't interpret font rendering
settings the same way, and now it has been fixed.
However, this problem remains in edgy, not all apps render smooth /
blurred fonts when Medium hinting is used. I don't know if its fonts
related libs are up to date.
By the way, slight and medium hinting forces use of autohinting. If
you get sharp fonts with full hinting, it's because you're using the
bytecode interpreter, which is patented. If you think this is fine and
should be the default, then just ask that full hinting is used by
default.