Ubuntu
fontconfig package

2.3.2-1.1ubuntu9 gives problems with firefox and thunderbird

Bug #40121 reported by Francesco Montorsi on 2006-04-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #39447: New fontconfig update degrades appearance of fonts. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fontconfig (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Using dapper and installing fontconfig version 2.3.2-1.1ubuntu9 makes all fonts in firefox (1.5.0.1) and thunderbird (1.5) look smaller and ugly.

Downgrading the package to 2.3.2-1ubuntu4 solves the problem. See the forum

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=159887

for more info.

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Scott Garman (sgarman) wrote on 2006-04-19:

That's odd, you seem to be describing the problem in bug #39447, but the ubuntu9 fontconfig package has fixed the problem. Can you verify that fonconfig re-scanned your fonts after the upgrade? All it took was a restart of X for me.

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Francesco Montorsi (f18m-cpp217828) wrote on 2006-04-22:

yes, fontconfig rescanned the fonts...

However I've now installed ubuntu10 package of fontconfig and the problem seems to have partially been removed. I.e. in Thunderbird and in Firefox some mails/htmlpages are displayed correctly, others are not. Maybe I'm doing a mess with my system config as I have changed firefox&thunderbird font settings some time ago... I'll try to restore them to default values and let you know