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Bug 276588 - media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 installs Nimbus that causes mis-rendering in Okular and other poppler-based apps
Summary: media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 installs Nimbus that causes mis-rendering i...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247657
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Printing Team
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Reported: 2009-07-05 16:16 UTC by Andreas K. Hüttel
Modified: 2009-10-27 21:42 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 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 ***