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Times, Helvetica, and Courier show up as bitmap fonts

Bug #76653 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: fontconfig

Times, Helvetica, and Courier are showing up as ugly bitmap fonts, even though I disabled bitmap fonts with `dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config`, and /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf appears to try to alias these to the URW equivalents. This problem shows up when using viewing, for example, <http://www.theregister.co.uk/> in Firefox. I’m using fontconfig 2.4.1-2ubuntu2 on feisty.

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Andrew Dorr (drewdorr) wrote :

Here's a fix:

Add this entry in "[User Prefs]" in your ~/.opera/opera6.ini file.

Enable Core X Fonts=0

From http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=468818

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

This bug has nothing to do with Opera.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

Changed in fontconfig:
status: New → Incomplete
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Dmitry Khotyanovsky (d-khotyan-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

After you globally configured your fontconfig to have /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
add this to your ~/.fonts.conf

<!-- To disable bitmap fonts whereever possible
     put the following rule in your personal ~/.fonts.conf file: -->
<match target="pattern">
    <edit name="prefer_bitmap">
     <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
</match>

It works for me on Gentoo.

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jaduncan (jaduncan) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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