Bug#316630: libxft2: Cannot load bitmap fonts; other fonts look ugly

["Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Brice Goglin writes:
> Hi,
> 
> About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding bitmap
> fonts not being loaded while the others looked ugly. Did you reproduce
> this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks.

Problem hasn't changed for me, but I haven't upgraded my
distro.  I expect the etch package will be OK, because when
I reported the bug it had already been fixed upstream.  And
meanwhile I wrote about a workaround on
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22/source/freetype.html

Silas