Problem with Bitstream Vera font install

From: Jesse Sheidlower (jester_at_panix.com)
Date: 05/15/03

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    After advice received here about why my upgrade of Mozilla to 1.3
    was displaying lousy fonts, I recently read through the font
    section of the Handbook and installed everything it recommended,
    and turned on anti-aliasing with Xft.

    The results are worse than they were before, but perhaps
    that's just a taste issue. In any case, the non-personal-taste
    problem is that Bitstream Vera Serif (the Handbook-suggested
    font to use for everything), when displayed by Mozilla in
    italics, is slanted diagonally _upwards._ That is, each
    character is raised, so a word in italics might look like

                     .
                    s
                   c
                  i
                 l
                a
               t
    a word in i

    (The slant isn't that severe, but it does render things
    unreadable.)

    In other fonts, including for instance Bitstream Vera Sans,
    this does not happen; italics just slants each individual
    character on the baseline, like it's supposed to.

    Any ideas, aside from chucking it all and recompiling
    Mozilla with WITHOUT_XFT=yes ?

    Thanks.

    Jesse Sheidlower
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