Font ugliness in firefox ?

[Eric Feliksik]

Andy Somerville wrote:
> Anyone notice font ugliness in firefox after the latest updates?  A
> good example of the effects can be seen on slashdot. Its really quite
> severe. I think it is from fontconfig.  The changelogs show:
> 
> fontconfig (2.3.2-1.1ubuntu10) dapper; urgency=low
> 
>   * Correctly fix the (eg) firefox vs. (eg) evince font metrics
>     problem:
>     - New FC_ANY_METRICS property, boolean.
>     - Revert change from 2.3.2-1.1ubuntu9 and instead:
>     - Change URW Nimbus font aliases in fonts.conf.in into equivalent
>       <match> directives so that we can add an additional test which
>       disables them when the anymetrics property is true.
> 
>  -- Ian Jackson <iwj at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:51:29 +0100
> 
> fontconfig (2.3.2-1.1ubuntu9) dapper; urgency=low
> 
>   * Until firefox and thunderbird can be tought to use it's own
>     idea of font replacements:
>   * Disable the usage of metric and shape compatible fonts for the
>     3 Adobe families. evince cannot display documents correctly
>     with these replacements not beeing available, but web browsers not
>     using these fonts look definitely nicer.
> 
>  -- Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:12:54 +0000
> 
> 
> I dont understand the change comments completely, but if its not
> urgent, it would be a good Idea to go back to what it was before.
> 
> 
>       Andy
> 

I don't get it either. I filed a bug ( https://launchpad.net/bugs/40210 
) on it a few days ago, but it was reverted, so I closed it, and now 
it's introduced again.

Eric