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Bug 444638 - enabling/disabling autohinting
enabling/disabling autohinting
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-tweak-tool
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-06 08:25 UTC by y y
Modified: 2018-01-24 15:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description y y 2007-06-06 08:25:21 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The only way to enable the autohinter is to add text to ~/.fonts.  Some people prefer it off, others on, so it should be easily toggable via the fonts properties GUI.

Related Launchpad bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/14310 "ontconfig don't use autohinter as default"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/22251 "Desktop UI for enabling autohinting?"

Old related fonts properties GNOME bug, Bug 92922
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98922

Linux font discussion at Mark Shuttleworth blog:
http://markshuttleworth.com/archives/119

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 15:02:26 UTC 
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