Public bug reported: When opening a mail in gmail that was send by someone with outlook , the font (Verdana) looks really ugly and broken. This is because for small font sizes the embedded bitmap is used. The default behaviour should be to not use the embeddedBitmap for Verdana (and other ttf-ms-corefonts), since that makes them very ugly.
Workaround: Add following lines to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf <match target="font" > <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: fontconfig 2.11.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 8 14:11:32 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-17 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: fontconfig UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317505 Title: EmbeddedBitmap for ttf-ms-corefonts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1317505/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs