This problem is still in intrepid, and seems tricky to resolve (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299697 is somewhat relevant).
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-804242.html also suggests an interesting approach, using FONTCONFIG_FILE and a firefox-specific font configuration. I gave up before getting it to work, but this seems like a somewhat elegant way to reconcile the demands of different applications. Perhaps the firefox packagers could look into something like this? Even if you don't personally care about matching Helvetica's metrics, customizing this behavior via $HOME/.fonts.conf is difficult because 30 -metric-aliases.conf is loaded before $HOME/.fonts.conf. That seems broken to me, but here's a hack to work around that issue ("assign_replace") that works well enough for me. If there's a better way, I'd love to know about it. Paste this XML into a new $HOME/.fonts.conf, or integrate it with your existing one. I chose to use msttcorefonts - you can choose fonts from DejaVu etc if you prefer. <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <!-- http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?pid=12222 --> <!-- assign_replace overrides /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf --> <match target="pattern"> <test name="family"> <string>Helvetica</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace"> <string>Arial</string> </edit> </match> <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="family"> <string>Times</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace"> <string>Times New Roman</string> </edit> </match> <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="family"> <string>Courier</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace"> <string>Courier New</string> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> -- firefox font changed to narrower, less readable font https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220568 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
