Hi,
I added some comments to the Bugzilla report. More details regarding
this specific issue:
Linux systems don’t have the Helvetica font, they use the Nimbus Sans L
clone. So you would have to specify ‘Nimbus Sans L’ as the font family.
The problem is, a condensed variant of this font exists,
Well, that explains why the bold text of my sidebar looks fine!
Give that this SVG we're talking about I have to get _some_ font into
the OS's fonts setup. Also give that the stylesheet has to work on
Windows, Mac and Linux, what are the chances of um, er aliasing FreeSans
as Helvetica? Looks
I'm on OpenSuSE-11.4.
I have 240 /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/helv*.pcf.gz. Are these unavailable
for SVG/PDF generation?
My /etc/fonts/fonts.conf names dir/usr/share/fonts/dir (and three
other dirs which don't exist).
Expressly adding dir/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/dir to