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------- Comment #1 from mfabian@xxxxxxxxxx  2007-04-02 03:30 MST -------
No, this has nothing to do with fontconfig.

The reason is that sub-pixel hinting is not compiled into freetype2.

See the freetype2.spec file:

    %define enable_subpixel_rendering 0

Set this to 1 and rebuild the freetype2 package if you want sub-pixel
hinting.

The reason why it is not enabled can be seen in
include/freetype/config/ftoption.h:

  /*************************************************************************/
  /*                                                                       */
  /* Uncomment the line below if you want to activate sub-pixel rendering  */
  /* (a.k.a. LCD rendering, or ClearType) in this build of the library.    */
  /*                                                                       */
  /* Note that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents        */
  /* and should not be activated in any default build of the library.      */
  /*                                                                       */
  /* This macro has no impact on the FreeType API, only on its             */
  /* _implementation_.  For example, using FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD when calling */
  /* FT_Render_Glyph still generates a bitmap that is 3 times larger than  */
  /* the original size; the difference will be that each triplet of        */
  /* subpixels has R=G=B.                                                  */
  /*                                                                       */
  /* This is done to allow FreeType clients to run unmodified, forcing     */
  /* them to display normal gray-level anti-aliased glyphs.                */
  /*                                                                       */
/* #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING */

If sub-pixel rendering is not compiled into freetype2, the results you
get when you enable or disable sub-pixel hinting in the runtime
configuration (fontconfig) are identical.

I cannot do anything about this now → WONTFIX.


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