Of course if Helvetica isn’t installed, it has to be mapped to Nimbus
Sans, because Nimus Sans is a clone of Helvetica etc.
Font rendering doesn’t seem to be well configured on your machine
(respecitvely in the application from which you’ve taken the
screenshot). Maybe the hinting is too strong.
again the screenshot, now hopefully with correct MIME type
** Attachment added: Nimbus Sans screenshot
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41284728/Nimbus_Sans.png
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Fonts are mapped to ugly fonts (which also causes problems with OOo)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41411
You received this bug
Here are screenshot of your Nimbus Sans page in Konqueror 4.4.1, one without
and one with light hinting.
** Attachment added: Nimbus_Sans_Konqueror.png
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41294297/Nimbus_Sans_Konqueror.png
** Attachment added: Nimbus_Sans_Konqueror_hinted.png
I’m trying KDE 4 these days and I was surprised to see everything in
Helvetica (Nimbus Sans). It had adopted the font settings of KDE 3 which
demand a sans serif generically, fontconfig resolves “Sans Serif” to
“Lucida Sans”, as “fc-match” shows, but Qt 4 (KDE 4) anyway uses
Helvetica for generic
