Lucida Console and Andale Mono render badly in bold
Bug #314555 reported by
Forest
This bug affects 1 person
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cairo (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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fontconfig (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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freetype (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I use Lucida Console 9 (a Microsoft TrueType font) as my terminal font. It worked great in Hardy, but after upgrading to Intrepid, bold rendering looks awful, as if the bytecode hinter has gone haywire. This is puzzling because the other TrueType fonts I have tried look fine, as does non-bold Lucida Console. I am attaching screen shots to demonstrate the difference between hardy and intrepid.
My font settings:
Anti-aliasing is disabled.
Hinting is set to Full.
Sub-pixel hinting is disabled.
(All these are set in the xfce User Interface Preferences. I normally use xfce, but the same problem is visible when I log in using gnome.)
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It's worth noting that the bad rendering occurs outside the Terminal application as well, such as in the window manager's font picker.