Bug#449128: gsfonts: Please improve hinting

2010-06-25 Thread Luís Picciochi Oliveira
This bug hasn't been present for a while. I think it can be closed now. Best regards, Pitxyoki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#449128: gsfonts: Please improve hinting

2010-06-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 06/25/2010 08:44 PM, Luís Picciochi Oliveira wrote: This bug hasn't been present for a while. I think it can be closed now. It does seem that the hinting of Nimbus Sans is not as bad as it used to be, but the metrics are still pretty bad. At 7 points, the string mps shows up here with a

Bug#449128: gsfonts: Please improve hinting

2009-10-20 Thread Luís Picciochi Oliveira
Hello, I too have been recently looking for how to solve this. I found a possible workaround by adding a 70-no-nimbus.conf file to conf.avail and linking to it at conf.d. I found this at http://staticfree.info/projects/debian/ugly-fonts/ . Maybe this file could be provided with the package, but

Bug#449128: gsfonts: Please improve hinting

2009-07-21 Thread Markus Koller
Hello Yes, I second this request. A workaround is to delete the link in /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf, but just now I came upon a site which actually specified Nimbus Sans L, so I still got the ugly font. Could the package maybe provide an optional file in /etc/fonts/conf.avail which

Bug#449128: gsfonts: Please improve hinting

2007-11-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
Package: gsfonts Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-3 Severity: wishlist The hinting for these fonts is rather lousy at the moment. If hinting was improved, we could actually have nice looking Helvetica on web pages. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT