[Bug 41411] Re: Fonts are mapped to ugly fonts (which also causes problems with OOo)

[Felix Geyer]

** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Fonts are mapped to ugly fonts (which also causes problems with OOo)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41411
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Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “fontconfig” source package in Hardy: Incomplete

Bug description:
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf mapps the following fonts:

Times to Nimbus Roman No9 L
Helvetica to Nimbus Sans L
Courier to Nimbus Mono L

The problem with this is that the Nimbus set of fonts renders really badly (on my machine at least). The fonts appear with blue pixels to the right of about 50% of letters.

Can these be changed to map to DejaVu or Bitstream fonts instead? DejaVu and Bitstream map beautifully.

I'll attach screenshots of these current fonts in action.