enabling/disabling autohinting

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Description

Please describe the problem: The only way to enable the autohinter is to add text to ~/.fonts. Some people prefer it off, others on, so it should be easily toggable via the fonts properties GUI.

Related Launchpad bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/14310 "ontconfig don't use autohinter as default" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/22251 "Desktop UI for enabling autohinting?"

Old related fonts properties GNOME bug, Bug 92922 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98922

Linux font discussion at Mark Shuttleworth blog: http://markshuttleworth.com/archives/119

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Does this happen every time?

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