What happened to autohint?

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/22/2012 11:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:48:24 -0500
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> What happened to the marvellous effect autohint used to
>> have? Is there something new I have to jigger to get it
>> turned on?
> Answering my own question after a bit of comparison
> between f18 and f17:
>
> Not only did the autohint file move to
> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf,
> but the content changed as well.
>
> Instead of a symlink, I made a copy and changed the
> "append" operation to "assign", and suddenly the
> scales fell from my eyes! I could see again!

Did you notice that after doing that you get the following warning when starting some applications from the command line?

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.


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