EmbeddedBitmap for ttf-ms-corefonts

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

When opening a mail in gmail that was send by someone with outlook , the font (Verdana) looks really ugly and broken. This is because for small font sizes the embedded bitmap is used. The default behaviour should be to not use the embeddedBitmap for Verdana (and other ttf-ms-corefonts), since that makes them very ugly.

Workaround: Add following lines to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<match target="font" >
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: fontconfig 2.11.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 8 14:11:32 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-17 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.