20100624

This week's Hug Day will focus on fontconfig!

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Stock Responses

For problem specific Stock Responses see: Bugs/Responses

49 New Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or

  • Set status to Confirmed

Bug

Subject

Triager

574636

Some fonts are rendered incorrectly

569396

Monospace italic font is not monospace in java (regression)

trinikrono

568855

"song ti" and other bitmap fonts are not available even if using yes-bitmaps rule

566714

Subpixel smoothing should default to Full Hinting

564651

evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcFontSetSort()

pvillavi

559548

fontconfig-config breaks monospace and diacritics

mathieu-tl

554935

fontconfig corrupted fonts

551977

Evince replaces bullet by infinity symbol

jibel

539008

Microsoft Sans Serif maps to Thai font even on european setups

jibel

504235

fontconfig strange selection

jibel

475889

Arial Narrow: not recognised

jibel

466691

Hinting/Antialiasing broken after 9.04->9.10 update

459909

package ttf-opensymbol 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 135

455117

evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcFontSetSort()

pvillavi

452086

/usr/lib symbolic links missing in 8.04.3, not in 8.04.1

jibel

445496

package ttf-opensymbol 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127

vish

440903

Alias in ~/.fonts.conf ignored

trinikrono

440271

c'ant update with apt-get upgrade bash

pvillavi

437264

evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigSubstituteWithPat()

pvillavi

415700

unable to install ttf while upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 - fc-cache bus error

trinikrono

389148

package fontconfig 2.6.0-1ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade:

jibel

380963

dpkg-reconfigure does not work (exit-status 10)

trinikrono

379761

MASTER - Font hinting does not honour gnome-settings in Firefox

369710

crash when installing deja vu

trinikrono

369275

Desktop: all black text has color "bleeding"

mathieu-tl

357104

package ttf-opensymbol 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 134

Pepe

342717

fc-cache segfaults when scanning an italic BDF font with empty SETWIDTH_NAME

jibel

336269

fc-cache crashed with signal 7 in FT_Open_Face()

jibel

330991

fc-cache crashed with SIGILL in FT_GlyphLoader_CheckPoints()

pvillavi

330990

package ttf-opensymbol 1:3.0.1-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 132

Pepe

318557

useing ubuntu 8.10.0 and it is crashing while updateing,after crashing it gives initi killed,busy box and i have to spend like an hour recovering

vish

303973

Misconfigured fontconfig: 49-sans-serif.conf

vish

303034

fontconfig has dirty changes in its diff.gz

trinikrono

293643

font settings in .fonts.conf ignored

trinikrono

293565

Some fonts look strange when autohint is enabled

vish

286090

evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcFontSetSort()

vish

269766

fontconfig cache updated four times during upgrade

trinikrono

269226

Ubuntu fallback font 'urw palladio' is poorly rendered

trinikrono

268812

fc-match Courier:spacing=0 ⇒ n022024l.pfb: "Nimbus Mono L" "Bold Oblique"

vish

255361

configuring fontconfig-config freezes

trinikrono

238466

Unable to obtain anti-aliasing for Chinese fonts smaller than 10 points

jibel

237908

Some Fonts not antialiased anymore on Firefox and QT4

vish

231543

Add Secwepemctsin Orthography (shs.orth)

vish

203824

bad default aliasing for 'arial'

trinikrono

200707

fontconfig does not honor hintslight, hintmedium, hintfull

vish

191654

Activate font auto hinting by default

mathieu-tl

146574

trashapplet crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

xteejx

110392

The yes-bitmaps rule makes it impossible to disable any bitmap font on a per-user basis

vish

75720

Please modify default fontconfig settings to properly support Urdu

trinikrono

4 Incomplete Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Change the bug's status to "Confirmed" or "Triaged" if the reporter replied with enough information or

  • Ask a secondary follow up question and subscribe to the bug report

Bug

Subject

Triager

339396

Crimean Tatar/Crimean Turkish (crh) .orth

kamus

175703

Problem with Korean default font "Guseul"

103627

ex-Warty, Feisty installation's font settings are wrong

kamus

41411

Fonts are mapped to ugly fonts (which also causes problems with OOo)

27 Confirmed Bugs

To mark it off the list you should:

  • Verify the bug is still not fixed
  • Request any needed info, Subscribe, Status to incomplete or
  • Set status to triaged UbuntuBugControl

Bug

Subject

Triager

555184

default chinese font isn't ttf-wqy-microhei

349663

debconf options still present but not working

jibel

348873

Very large tracking (letter spacing) in Gnome Terminal

314555

Lucida Console bold renders badly after upgrade to intrepid

jibel

290365

Bad vista fonts aliasing

286175

evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigSubstituteWithPat()

245901

Typeface option shows wrong language for options (Msttcorefonts)

jibel

238719

printing hardy home page from firefox to pdf or hpijs looks awful, scrunched fonts

222109

[hardy] Fonts are rendered slightly fuzzy and are too thin

220568

firefox font changed to narrower, less readable font

207198

Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10 displays CJK text incorrectly

207158

package libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-4ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

jibel

174229

[hardy] fonts smaller after update

161058

some ~/.fonts.conf settings do no override desktop-wide gnome settings (hinting style)

152135

[Gutsy] Every character of the "Loading" message shows into a grey rectangle area

jibel

130687

fontconfig alias for ZapfDingbats font

jibel

126784

bad font substitution causes line spacing to be wrong

jibel

102300

[apport] gdmgreeter crashed with SIGSEGV

kamus

93159

"Fonts antialiasing" in Terminal

69091

Fonts look blurry if ~/.fonts.conf (even empty one) is present

kamus

63403

Semi-random ugly font rendering in Edgy (no font hinting)

43105

Fuzzy Font Rendering

kamus

36761

Without ja_JP as default environment, Japanese font looks horrible for certain font sizes

kamus

34937

Automatically enable subpixel rendering where appropriate

kamus

24764

Wrong font names

kamus

18037

Fonts too bold at high px sizes

jibel

12018

OpenOffice, GNOME show fonts with glyphs not useable in the language used by the user

kamus

Progress

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More Bugs

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UbuntuBugDay/20100624 (last edited 2010-06-29 12:23:14 by pc-231-206-161-190)