thanks
On 10/17/06, Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure exactly which package I should be reporting this bug
against, so please bear with me. :)
My problem: web pages that ask for the 'courier' font look ugly. The
font is very blurry, and lines that should be straight are not. I am
attaching a picture of what the rendering looks like.
As far as I can tell it's not actually courier that is being selected to
draw the text:
$ fc-match courier
NimbusMonL-Regu.pfb: "Nimbus Mono L" "Regular"
$ locate NimbusMonL-Regu.pfb
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/N/NimbusMonL-Regu.pfb
I would expect "Courier New" to be selected instead.
Dear msttcorefonts maintainer,
Please add defoma 'Alias' options to your hints file. From a quick bit of websearching it appears that Courier New is intended to be metric compatible with Courier and Arial with Helvetica. I expect other fonts in the msttcorefonts set were designed as drop-in replacements for existing fonts too.
gsfonts.hints has plenty of Alias examples, if what I'm asking isn't clear (or ask me and I can provide more details).
Sam (bug submitter),
Even once this is done, what you are asking is essentially a subjective opinion of which font is a better replacement for Courier. Because there isn't a clearly superior choice for all possible uses of Courier fonts, you'll have to apply your own preference by editing /etc/defoma/hints/msttcorefonts.hints and increasing the 'Priority' options above 20 (and adding the desired font Aliases, if the msttcorefonts package hasn't been updated in the mean time). Running 'defoma-font reregister-all /etc/defoma/hints/msttcorefonts.hints' as root should then regenerate all the relevant font configuration.
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Thanks,
- Gus
