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Ubuntu fallback font 'urw palladio' is poorly rendered

Bug #269226 reported by Eddie Dunn on 2008-09-12

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fontconfig (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	gsfonts (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/09/07/empathy-pidgin

The font rendering on this page is quite faulty in Ubuntu. I've tried it on two different computers running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1, in both Opera and Firefox 3. I've been told the font in question is Palatino.

The screenshot is what it looks likw on my Ubuntu computers.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 12 03:32:51 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

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Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#1

This is awful to read... Edit (110.5 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (735 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#2

... this is quite readable. Edit (160.6 KiB, image/png)

Here's what the same page looks like on my friends Mac.

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#3

I can confirm, also the required information for triage appears to be enough.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#4

$ fc-match Palatino
p052003l.pfb: "URW Palladio L" "Roman"

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#5

The palatino font is not installed by default, so ubuntu uses a fallback font which is the 'urw palladio' and is poorly rendered. This bug does not deal with firefox, and is a gsfonts issue. Changing package to gsfonts. Changing title to reflect new info.

Andreas Moog (ampelbein) on 2008-09-12

Changed in gsfonts:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#6

I see both a gsfonts and a fontconfig bug here; with gsfonts installed, /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf includes a mapping of Palatino to URWPalladio via /etc/defoma/hints/gsfonts.hints, and fontconfig itself also includes an equivalent mapping in /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf (farther down in the file than the first, commented-out reference).

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Pierre Chef (pierre.chef) wrote on 2010-03-11:

#7

Under Ubuntu 9.10, this problem is solved, the font Palatino looks good.

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kurt belgrave (trinikrono) wrote on 2010-06-24:

#8

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#9

Hi.

As of 10.04 the problem still persists, although in Maverick Meerkat it seems to be solved.

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kurt belgrave (trinikrono) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#10

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Maverick Meerkat.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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