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FS#37331 - fontconfig 2.11 problem

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jamp (jamp) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 13:53 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 15:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Some fonts appear to be jagged in some web pages.
I.e. please look at this page

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide

Maybe it is a mere configuration problem related with the fonts
installed on my machine, nevertheless
it is not working correctly "out of the box" as usual.

I went back to fontconfig 2.10.95 and now everything is fine.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

fontconfig 2.11

Steps to reproduce:

go to this page

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070806102826AAmomgB

using a browser that lets the site to specify the fonts to use.

This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Monday, 14 October 2013, 15:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 15:32 GMT
Github uses Helvetica. We used to unconditionally replace Helvetica with Arial, but that's a wrong thing to do™ (see  FS#25499 ). To get a nicer display, either:

- Install tex-gyre-fonts and enable 70-no-bitmaps.conf; This uses TeX Gyre Heros, a metric-compatible Helvetica replacement

- Install tex-gyre-fonts and uninstall xorg-fonts-{75,100}dpi; This uses TeX Gyre Heros, a metric-compatible Helvetica replacement

- Install ttf-liberation and grab 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf from the older fontconfig package; This uses Liberation Sans, an Arial replacement, but not metric-compatible with Helvetica

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