Improving the look of fonts in Linux

Just save the following code, with the name- '.fonts.conf' and put it in your Ubuntu home-page , i.e, the home page of a particular user. Don't forget the period(full-stop) before 'fonts' in the name of that file!
The code is-

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

This tip was got from the following page-
http://www.codejacked.com/greatly-improve-the-look-of-your-fonts-in-linux/
Please visit this page to clarify further doubts. It surely has some notable difference, i tried.