On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:47:36AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> The URW Nimbus fonts, in their original Postscript form, have major
> kerning issues which cause many letters to run together when hinting
> is enabled. I’m uncertain whether this is a bug in the fonts
> themselves or a problem in FreeType’s Type1 renderer that applies to
> all Type1 fonts, but it causes severe ugliness and difficulty of
> reading when browsing websites that use these fonts. The problem is
> greatly escalated by the fact that fontconfig-config aliases the
> standard names Helvetica, Times, and Courier to these fonts, but I
> have also seen misguided sites directly requesting Nimbus Sans L by
> name.
I have this problem, too. It has been nearly two years since this bug
was filed, and the maintainer still hasn't replied. I guess that
means this bug is considered WONTFIX (though it isn't tagged so).
I would just purge the gsfonts package, but imagemagick needs it.
Instead therefore, does anyone know how to write a ~/.fonts.conf file
that says something like
Regardless of what was asked for, always use the DejaVu,
Bitstream, or Freefont foundry, in that order. Ignore all other
foundries completely.
or even just
Never ever use a Type1 font.
I'm looking at the fontconfig-user.html document but it's a bit
confusing as the example seems limited to creating a simple "use
<family> for <alias>" aliases.
I'll try to remember to post a solution here, if I find one.
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