Font hinting in fontconfig preferences

Axell · 07-03-2018, 09:31 PM

I am dealing with font kerning issues in my pdf and need to "turn off font hinting in your fontconfig preferences" but I am unable to find where the fontconfig preferences in the current version of Calibre.

kovidgoyal · 07-03-2018, 10:15 PM

Fontconfig preferences are not part of calibre. Fontconfig is configured system wide on a linux system. However, there should be no need for it if you are using an official calibre release, since it includes a patched Qt that disables font hinting automatically when converting to PDF. If you are using the distro calibre version, then you will need to mess with fontconfig.

07-03-2018, 09:31 PM	#1
Axell Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2013 Device: pdf	Font hinting in fontconfig preferences I am dealing with font kerning issues in my pdf and need to "turn off font hinting in your fontconfig preferences" but I am unable to find where the fontconfig preferences in the current version of Calibre.

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07-03-2018, 10:15 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,610 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Fontconfig preferences are not part of calibre. Fontconfig is configured system wide on a linux system. However, there should be no need for it if you are using an official calibre release, since it includes a patched Qt that disables font hinting automatically when converting to PDF. If you are using the distro calibre version, then you will need to mess with fontconfig.

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