Created attachment 933025 [details] Screenshot of http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor After upgrading to f21, I am seeing firefox rendering fonts awfully on many websites. It looks like the font has been rendered non-anti-aliased, and then scaled by a non-integer ratio. Examples are facebook and http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor.
fc-match says that 'helvetica' is getting mapping to an old X11 font: $ fc-match -v helvetica ... file: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvR08-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz"(w) Isn't it about time that we just deleted any code path using old X11 fonts when they are not explicitly asked for?
Seeing this as well... Restoring my sanity/working around it temporarily by mapping Helvetica to Nimbus Sans L in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <alias binding="same"> <family>Helvetica</family> <prefer> <family>Nimbus Sans L</family> </prefer> </alias> </fontconfig>
IMHO should be fixed in fontconfig.
If we prefer Nimbus Sans L for Helvetica alternatives, it should be fixed in urw-fonts with adding the above config to the package. or adding the following to xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi package: <fontconfig> <selectfont> <rejectfont> <glob>/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/*.gz</glob> </rejectfont> </selectfont> </fontconfig> if those fonts are totally useless for applications using fontconfig. Either way, I expect to see the fix in the package other than fontconfig because it avoids frequent updates of fontconfig for non-binary updates and unnecessary updates for those who don't install the problematic font packages. I'm not sure how much rejecting X11 fonts affects other applications. reassigning to urw-fonts at this point.
i cannot reproduce this issue on my machine with xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi and urw-fonts-2.4-19.fc21 installed. fc-match -v helvetica Pattern has 29 elts (size 32) family: "Nimbus Sans L"(s) style: "Regular"(w) slant: 0(i)(s) weight: 80(i)(s) width: 100(i)(s) size: 12(f)(s) pixelsize: 12.5(f)(s) foundry: "urw"(w) hintstyle: 3(i)(s) hinting: True(s) verticallayout: False(s) autohint: False(s) globaladvance: True(s) file: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb"(w) index: 0(i)(w) outline: True(w) scalable: True(w) dpi: 75(f)(s) scale: 1(f)(s) charset: 0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0001: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0002: 0f000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 3f0002c0 00000000 0003: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00100000 10000000 00000000 00000000 0004: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00000000 fffff000 ffffffff ffff199f 033fffff 0020: 77180000 06010047 00000010 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 00000000 0021: 00400000 00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0022: 46260044 00000000 00000000 00000031 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0025: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00f6: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 000001f8 00000000 00fb: 00000006 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 (w) lang: aa|ab|af|av|ay|ba|be|bg|bi|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cv|da|de|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|kaa|ki|kk|kl|kum|kv|ky|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mk|mo|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ro|ru|sah|se|sel|sh|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tg|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|uk|uz|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|lg|li|mn-mn|ms|na|ng|pap-an|pap-aw|rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za(s) fontversion: 0(i)(s) fontformat: "Type 1"(w) embeddedbitmap: True(s) decorative: False(s) namelang: "de"(s) prgname: "fc-match"(s) hash: "sha256:cba3127299addab69e12b5ff07955b4c065dd0e631a6736616cd3423aa0be6cd"(w) postscriptname: "NimbusSanL-Regu"(w) could you please give more infos how i can reproduce this issue? Thanks
I can no longer reproduce this. Is this still happening for anyone else?
reporter and me cannot reproduce this issue anymore. I decided to close this bug as "WORKSFORME". Feel free to reopen this again if someone can reproduce it. Thanks