On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 21:39 -0500, Erik wrote: > Well, specifically, what I had in my .fonts.conf was a default setting > of BCI full hinting for all fonts. After that, I had configuration to > use slight hinting for specific fonts. I found that Gnome (Cairo) apps > would not respect this, for whatever reason, whereas KDE (Qt) would. > Gnome apps would just do brute-force full-hinting of everything. This > patch on cairo fixed the issue and things then rendered as they do in > KDE. I actually was using MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 before starting firefox, > and now I no longer have to with the patched cairo. > > Perhaps I have a unique configuration in my .fonts.conf that exposed > this. All I know is that it works now. I'm fairly sure that it comes down to having to remove the currently set hinting on pattern before setting your new value. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
