Package: fontconfig-config
Version: 2.12.3-0.1
Followup-For: Bug #866950
Dear Maintainer,
I was about to file this myself when I found that Andrew just opened this bug.
After two frustrating days, I found the cause. It is the inclusion of the
following new files in fontconfig-config:
10-autohint.conf
10-hinting-slight.conf
(symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d to /usr/share/....)
These files do not exist in 2.11.
>From reading the files, I believe they were intended to provide fallbacks.
>However, they appear to function by overriding system behavior.
I use full hinting and no autohinter, so many (not all) of my fonts were
dramatically changed by the forced activation of autohinting and slight hinting.
My solution was to create a ~/.fonts.conf with the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
This is irritating because I already had this set in XFCE, but only some
software was respecting those settings. Others were using the fontconfig
values.
-- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-1
ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-2
ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8
ii ucf 3.0036
fontconfig-config recommends no packages.
fontconfig-config suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* fontconfig/hinting_type: Autohinter
* fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic
* fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false
