Hi Fabian, Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2011-02-11 14:27:00) > This issue has severe real-life impact for browsing the web! The > attached screenshots show the bottom of the <http://www.osnews.com/> > page displayed with iceweasel 3.5.16-4, once without my patch (i.e. > without Truetype fonts, Helvetica mapped to Type1 Nimbus Sans) and > once with my patch (i.e. with Truetype fonts, Helvetica mapped to > Truetype Nimbus Sans). Please have a look e.g. at how the Name "Adam > Scheinberg" is rendered, the improvement is overwhelming. I finally(!) took some time to wrap my head around this... Converting from Type 1 to TrueType is - as I understand it - never lossless, so essentially introduces a new font, which feels wrong IMO. There exist already a progression on the URW++ base35-compatible set, so perhaps your needs can be satisfied by use of that: fonts-texgyre. As of today fonts-texgyre "loses" to gsfonts as provider of "serif". Bug#720953 covers that, including a fix you can try locally and see if indeed that improves the situation. Regards, and sorry for the [phone bill], - Jonas [phone bill]: putting you "on hold" literally for ages -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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