Comment 22 for bug 412195

I'm not sure bitmaps are such a bad thing, provided they are only used
without scaling. For the same reason png icons look better than svg
ones at native size.

2009/9/22, bobince <email address hidden>:
> I agree with Eric, it's nothing to do with Tahoma as such: Karmic simply
> renders all fonts using embedded bitmaps where they are available. Did
> this used to happen? I don't remember having the problem before.
>
> Most embedded bitmaps are much worse renderings that what FreeType would
> naturally produce, simply because they're not anti-aliased. I think
> Ubuntu should set embeddedbitmaps false as default, and only turn it on
> for the packaged CJK fonts that really need it (because their hinting
> isn't sufficiently good to make the characters readable at smaller
> sizes).
>
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> ttf-tahoma-replacement makes some web-sites look ugly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412195
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