Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: fontconfig
Recently when I opened one PowerPoint presentation with OpenOffice Impress on
Feisty, I noticed that the layout on some pages was really screwed up. I
investigated a little bit and I found out that the problem lied within the font
that was used to substitute Times New Roman, which is not avaible on my system.
Obviously Dejavu Sans gets chosen as a substitute, allthough it is much bigger
than Times New Roman at the same font size.
In Edgy and Dapper Times New Roman was replaced with Nimbus Roman No 9 L, which
looked really great, since these two fonts seem to be nearly identical.
Now I wondered why Feisty chooses a different substitute than previous Ubuntu
versions and found out that one passage of one of the fontconfig files in Edgy
is missing in Feisty, which is obviously responsible for the choice of the
correct font replacements.
If I create a file called .fonts.conf in my home directory and insert the
missing passage there, the fonts are substituted as in Edgy again.
I have added below screenshots of the presentation, the presentation itself and
the certain passage of my .fonts.conf and I would suggest to include it by
default again, since documents can look really ugly and screwed up otherwise.
** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Bad substituted fonts in Feisty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112092
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