Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: fontconfig-config
A standard install of the default Jaunty desktop results in the mapping
of several common "Adobe postscript" font families to rather old 75dpi
fonts. The font family "Helvetica", "Times", and "Courier" are by
default all rendered with fonts from the /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi or
100dpi directories:
>fc-match "Helvetica"
helvR12.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"
>locate helvR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/helvR12.pcf.gz
>fc-match "Times"
timR12.pcf.gz: "Times" "Regular"
>locate timR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/timR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/timR12.pcf.gz
On a modern system, these fonts look bad by almost any metric. The file
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf has an <alias> for those family
names, but they use <accept> rather than <prefer> which seems to let the
old 75dpi fonts win.
It seem like those aliases should be updated to prefer some decent ttf
that is installed by default like follows:
<alias binding="same">
<family>Helvetica</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias binding="same">
<family>Times</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias binding="same">
<family>Courier</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: fontconfig-config
A standard install of the default Jaunty desktop results in the mapping
of several common "Adobe postscript" font families to rather old 75dpi
fonts. The font family "Helvetica", "Times", and "Courier" are by
default all rendered with fonts from the /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi or
100dpi directories:
>fc-match "Helvetica"
helvR12.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"
>locate helvR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/helvR12.pcf.gz
>fc-match "Times"
timR12.pcf.gz: "Times" "Regular"
>locate timR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/timR12.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/timR12.pcf.gz
On a modern system, these fonts look bad by almost any metric. The file
- [b]/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf[/b] has an <alias> for those
- family names, but they use <accept> rather than <prefer> which seems to
- let the old 75dpi fonts win.
+ /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf has an <alias> for those family
+ names, but they use <accept> rather than <prefer> which seems to let the
+ old 75dpi fonts win.
It seem like those aliases should be updated to prefer some decent ttf
that is installed by default like follows:
- [code] <alias binding="same">
+ <alias binding="same">
<family>Helvetica</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias binding="same">
<family>Times</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias binding="same">
<family>Courier</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
</prefer>
- </alias>[/code]
+ </alias>
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75dpi fonts used for common families
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344654
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