I use Gentoo and had the same problem, now I have solved it.
The issue was that in most systems Helvetica falls back to Arial, which has no 
problem at all.
Now, I had a bitmap font called Helvetica (under 75dpi, we all have it I 
believe...), and because fc-cache was also registering bitmap fonts, this ugly 
thing was being used by Firefox in all pages that have Helvetica as default 
font in their CSS. (for example the page I used for testing: 
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading).
Solution: Take 70-no-bitmaps.conf into action. In Gentoo it's activated via te 
eselect interface, I don't know how it is done in other distros, but I'm sure 
the file is there. With this rule fc-cache ignores these kind of fonts, leaving 
the system without a font with the name Helvetica, and so forcing the browser 
to fall back to something equivalent.
Another solution would be to write another rule which states that for every 
Helvetica-call the Arial font should be used, but this is more complicated in 
my opinion

-- 
Some Fonts not antialiased anymore on Firefox and QT4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237908
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to