thank you for all the information
further tests (for the kf8 reader) ... that sounds great
in the meantime I learned from the FT website that FT doesn't do kerning (they say FT is a glyph based service, all spacing stuff must be done by a higher level) (btw for a non-linux person all the builds, patches etc are quite confusing)
and a small amendment for the "turn off all hinting" lark
to make really sure you may use this in the alternate.conf
(a further option could be to disable hinting for bold fonts only)
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>none</const></edit>
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcdnone</const></edit>
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><int>0</int></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>