[Freetype] To Hint or Not To Hint

[ismail (cartman) donmez]

Hi all!

I am using freetype from cvs. It seems great with David Chester's patches so 
kudos to all freetype developers, but when I enable hinting fonts seem really 
distorted. Two screenshot to show the issue :

www.submoron.org/~cartman/alias.png shows when only anti-aliasing is on
www.submoron.org/~cartman/hinting.png shows when anti-aliasing + hinting is 
on.

As you can see when hinting is on fonts look real bad. Anyone got any idea 
what may be the problem ?

P.S : I am using TTF fonts from a Windows XP Professional installation.

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