Subpixel rendering for some fonts in Firefox and Konqueror is disabled after a fontconfig update
Bug #344629 reported by
Michael Marley
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| fontconfig (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: fontconfig
After a recent upgrade of the fontconfig packages on Jaunty, subpixel rendering (and traditional grayscale antialiasing) is/are disabled in some fonts on Firefox and Konqueror (and possibly other browsers too, I have not checked). These fonts seem to be Arial-like sans-serif fonts, but I am not sure. The site it is most prevalent on is http://
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| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in fontconfig: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package fontconfig - 2.6.0-1ubuntu10
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fontconfig (2.6.0-1ubuntu10) jaunty; urgency=low
* debian/
default; we add it to the CONF_LINKS in conf.d/
fix regressions reported (LP: #305394, #344629)
* debian/
"drop debconf transition" to ensure that it doesn't get removed
automatically (LP: #305394, #344629)
* debian/
introduced FC_ANY_METRICS - this change never made it upstream and
firefox doesnt use it anymore.
-- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:37:18 +0100