Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708525
--- Comment #25 from Akira TAGOH tagoh@redhat.com --- (In reply to comment #22)
In case anyone has been trying to get this autohinting to work in fedora 18, I found that not only did the master location of the 10-autohint.conf file change (it now lives in /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf), but the content changed as well. The f18 version has an "append" operation rather than an "assign" operation. The only way I found to make fonts look reasonable on my display was to copy rather than symlink the file and edit it to change "append" to "assign". At last, I can see again!
That change was to respect the configuration in the desktops. if you are expecting to see that fix in fontconfig, I won't do that as I canceled the feature in f18. if this is DejaVu specific, I'll reassign this to it though, otherwise you may need to file a separate bug to the appropriate packages to collect/improve it.