[Bug 220568] Re: firefox font changed to narrower, less readable font

[Justin Flavin]

fixed issue - thanks to this posting on reddit.com:

http://reddit.com/info/6hfhn/comments/


"After changing the fonts around on Reddit with the (mostly broken) Firebug extension, I narrowed the problem down to Helvetica. According to "fc-match", helvetica was mapping to Nimbus Sans L, which is the default - and also looks awful. DejaVu sans, on the other hand, happens to look great.

To map Helvetica to DejaVu sans instead of Nimbus, simply edit
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf (you'll need sudo) and replace
all occurrences of Nimbus Sans L with DejaVu Sans in the XML. Restart
Firefox and you'll be good to go."

i did this, restarted the Dell desktop and i no longer have poor font
rendering in Firefox 3.


** Attachment added: "font-fixed.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14640681/font-fixed.png

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firefox font changed to narrower, less readable font
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