Bug 276588

Summary:	media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 installs Nimbus that causes mis-rendering in Okular and other poppler-based apps
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	cbm
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2009-07-05 16:16:33 UTC

media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 installs a font (n021004l.pfb) with incorrect metadata. 

This causes okular:4.2 and other poppler-based applications to render all "Times" text in ~"Times-Bold".

For all details and a fix via fontconfig see

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18126

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10593?dev=179


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open PDF in kde-base/okular-4.2.4 that contains text in the font "Times". 
Actual Results:  
The text is errorneously displayed bold.

Expected Results:  
Normal-weight text.

Comment 1 shade 2009-08-10 12:53:23 UTC

Or fix via downgrade to 6.0

Comment 2 Carl Michal 2009-08-27 23:13:56 UTC

This is true of the italic version too:
n021024l.pfb

These fonts claim to be 'medium' weight, but are bold.  In the urw-fonts package the same fonts are installed, and the ones there are much more recent and do identify themselves as bold.

The fonts in gnu-gs-fonts-std should either be updated (they date from 2002, while the urw-fonts are more recent) or eliminated.  They cause misrenderings.

gnu-gs-fonts-std and urw-fonts also overlap each other considerably.

See also bug #256088

Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-27 21:42:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 247657 ***