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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Well it was not meant in the way of possessing them in any way. I am familiar with pacman basics, removing and reinstalling the fonts worked as supposed to. What did not change was the look of Nimbus itself.I know that the letters are squashed because I can compare old PDF´s with the original content. And a friend of mine was sending me the other day some odt´s from Ubuntu 12.04 which look different on my PC.It seems to affect only the normal version of Nimbus letters. Bold letters do fine, iterative letters do not.sudo pacman -Rdd gsfonts Password: Targets (1): gsfonts-1.0.7pre44-3 Tota (HowTos)

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Hello,I am observing strange font rendering in Firefox when text is displayed in the Nimbus Sans L font-family. For example, the selected font on duckduckgo.com is Nimbus Sans L on my machine. Any query result that contains "No" or "TM", inluding inside words such as Notebook or HTML will be substituted for № and ™, or №tebook and H™L. This is a nuisance.

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$ fc-list | sed 's,:.*,,' | sort -ulists everything except Type1 directory contents.Meanwhile fc-cache  searches and caches /usr/share/fonts/Type1$ xlsfonts|grep nimbus  shows the font.% xset q /.../ Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/share/fonts/local/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/

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Anyone?

Thanks much.

Ubuntu includes the free commercial URW++ postscript fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts (from the gsfonts package).

I've seen that the full set are also available in TrueType format (including several not in gsfonts, such as Garamond). If you download the ghostscript source, they're all there.

Is there any benefit to using the TrueType versions instead? Will the display improve?

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