The problem is not with the LCD filter, it's whether the Ubuntu copy of freetype is changing the autohint style. When choosing each of the four options the fonts change their shapes. In Ubuntu, only the "none" and "full" make any hinting difference. Someone in gutsy changed the "medium" and "full" buttons to do nothing more than turn on and off the monospace lcd filter. This needs to be fixed so that the buttons do what they say.
-- Kriston Rehberg http://kriston.net/ Arne Goetje wrote: > Can you try to remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf and > see if that helps? > > If that helps, then we would need some discussion if we should disable > that file by default. > > As a general note: due to the nature of fontconfig being a system wide > setting and users will always have different preferences when it comes > to text rendering, it is actually impossible for us to provide a default > configuration that works for everyone. Manual tweaking by the user will > aways be needed. > > -- > fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200707 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Source Package "fontconfig" in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: fontconfig > > fontconfig-2.4.2-1.2ubuntu4 does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, > hintfull options for the autohinter. > When I ask fontconfig to use the authinter and specify hintstyle as > hintslight, hintmedium, or hintfull there is no perceptible difference > on the screen. Doing this on a similar Fedora 8 system shows > perceptible differences with all settings. > I also tried downloading and compiling freetype2 with the bytecode > interpreter forced "off" so the autohinter is always used. The font > rendering is certainly the autohinter but there is again no perceptible > difference between hintslight, hintmedium, and hintfull. > I suspect but cannot prove that this might be the result of the > fontconfig "hack" that was made to enable/disable the legacy LCD filter > for monospaced fonts in gutsy. > > Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) > > -- fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200707 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
