Void-packages: Helvetica shouldn't be a bitmap font provided by xorg-fonts-75dpi

[sburris0]

System

• xuname:
  Void 5.4.43_1 x86_64 AuthenticAMD uptodate rrmFF
• package:
  firefox
  xorg-fonts

Expected behavior

Fonts in Firefox should look nice

Actual behavior

Pages such as https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages have jagged, ugly fonts everywhere.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Install a font package
2. Open Firefox to a page such as this

Fix

I found this fix on r/voidlinux: https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/fa9wyk/solution_for_non_antialiased_fonts_in_firefox_and/

The solution is to symlink fontconfig config files then update the font cache.

ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
fc-cache -fv

The issue explained on arch wiki, in the context of PDFs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Helvetica_font_problem_in_generated_PDFs

I think that if this can't be fixed with a post_install() in a package, then a message following installation or a mention in the handbook would be helpful.

[abenson]

I think this should be documented in the handbook. I don't think disabling bitmap fonts for everyone is the right answer.

[ericonr]

Oh that's what happened when I installed xorg-fonts. I think there is a xbps-reconfigure hook for fonts, would prefer to use that for the config step.

[nolbap]

I'm having the same problem on firefox, and disabling bitmap fonts doesn't work for me cause I use terminus fonts for a lot of things, any idea on how could I solve this?

[georgianfire]

I'm having the same problem on firefox, and disabling bitmap fonts doesn't work for me cause I use terminus fonts for a lot of things, any idea on how could I solve this?

The solution here helped me fix the issue on firefox
https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/bcg34x/just_moved_to_void/ekqdh32/