[Bug 339081] [NEW] Disable hinting with luxi fonts

[David Allouche]

Public bug reported:

The Luxi fonts look great when unhinted, but they are just ugly when
hinted. Maybe there is no hinting data in the font itself and freetype
has to do auto-hinting, I do not know.

Since Luxi does not take well to hinting, hinting should be disabled.

In any case, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 from upstream binary tarball appears to
ignore the GNOME hinting settings, the only way I found to get good
looking Luxi fonts in Firefox was to disable the hinting using
fontconfig.

Fontconfig file attached (drop in /etc/fonts/config.d).

System details:
Ubuntu 8.10
ttf-xfree86-nonfree 4.2.1-3

** Affects: xfonts-scalable-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Disable hinting with luxi fonts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339081
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