gv fonts don't render properly in Dapper

[Steve Doty]

I just did a fresh install of Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) and gv no longer renders correctly. No bold fonts are displayed at all, for instance, and the fonts being used are ugly and hard to read.

I used gv daily on the same hardware under Breezy, and it always worked flawlessly. How can a working program be so badly broken on an udgrade?

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Did you perhaps have a configuration in Breezy that made the fonts render better that was lost during the upgrade?

[Steve Doty (doty)]

No configuration. It "just worked" out of the box in Breezy (and in Hoary for that matter), but in Dapper it is now broken.

There is a posting in the forums at

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=181385

which seems to be relevant, and confirms that this problem was noticed by others besides me.

I attach two screenshots of the same file being rendered by gv on two different platforms, one running Breezy and the other running Dapper.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!