That's a bit odd. I had no trouble getting pango-view, which uses Cairo on Fedora 9, to render fonts as instructed in .fonts.conf... On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Erik <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since this has bothered me for a long time, as I imagine it would > anybody who likes to uber-tweak their .fonts.conf, I figured I would put > it out there. Gnome and GTK+ apps never respected my per-font hinting > settings in .fonts.conf which drove me totally bonkers. Apparently, > what causes them to ignore the hinting settings is actually due to cairo > overriding it. I found a solution on Ubuntu forums and created a patch > for Cairo that will make it respect .fonts.conf: > > > --- cairo-1.4.12/src/cairo-ft-font.c.orig 2008-06-05 > 19:34:45.000000000 -0500 > +++ cairo-1.4.12/src/cairo-ft-font.c 2008-06-05 19:35:17.000000000 -0500 > @@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ > options->base.subpixel_order = other->base.subpixel_order; > } > > - if (options->base.hint_style == CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT) > + //if (options->base.hint_style == CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_DEFAULT) > options->base.hint_style = other->base.hint_style; > > if (other->base.hint_style == CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_NONE) > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig