Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1326188
Title:
Wrong PDF standard fonts are replaced when fonts package "fonts-
texgyre" is installed - PDFs are rendered with missing characters
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hi,
please see following bug report on freedesktop with screenshots:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79527
When fonts package "fonts-texgyre" from the "texgyre" package is installed,
all PDFs containing e.g. a reference to a "Helvetica" font, which is usually
not installed on Ubuntu systems, fontconfig mages a very bad choice with one of
the fonts supplied in fonts-texgyre (like "TeX Gyre Heros").
The problem is, apparantly the texgyre fonts us a different naming
style for some important glyphs (like greek characters contained in
many mathematical documents), so that fontconfig cannot find them.
See screenshots in abovementioned bugreport:
==> PDF readers only display a blank space in this case, which has
potentially disastrous results (there are six orders of magnitude difference
between an Ampere current and a Microampere current e.g..).
There is a likely explanation also unter this bugreport:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tex-gyre/+bug/1317599
==> Please change the Ubuntu font configuration so that all those PDFs
are displayed correctly.
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1326188/+subscriptions
--
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
