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Re: Font problem: Helvetica appears bitmapped



On Friday 14 January 2005 11:53, Leo Breebaart wrote:
> I am running a Debian/unstable system, usually to my full
> satisfaction, but there is *one* problem: the font 'Helvetica'
> often appears as an ugly bitmapped version of the font, typically
> on web pages (when "font-family: Helvetica" is explicitly
> specified in the style sheet), but e.g. also as the menu font for
> Konqueror (note: I run Gnome, not KDE -- I was just using
> Konqueror to double-check).

Same problem here, especially with the register's website and sun.com. Both 
force Helvetica and it is butt ugly.  Haven't found a way to fix this 
properly.

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