There is apparently a bug in FontForge, by which a few characters were appended to the TTF and OTF binaries of FreeFont (and other fonts). This may be partly responsible for the problems you have seen. We are onto it.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28742 ** Bug watch added: GNU Savannah Bug Tracker #28742 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28742 -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs