Sun 06 May 2012 11:22:29 AM UTC, comment #3:
Thanks for the quick reply! Sorry, I don't know much about typography, so I might confuse the terms :)
There are never two versions of FreeSans installed. I just switch between the old 2010-09-19 and the new 2012-05-03 package (ttf-freefont) from my distribution's repository. I set Firefox to display all web sites in FreeSans, so I just took screenshots of the GNU FreeFont web site with each version installed and assembled them later in GIMP.
Since LibreOffice has the same issues, I produced two PDFs with the font embedded, one for each FreeSans version. When opened in Evince 3.4.0, the difference is not as bad as in Firefox and LibreOffice, but a difference is visible. I attached the PDF files and a screenshot of how Evince displays both versions.
Unfortunately, fc-cache -f doesn't help (tried sudo as well).
Do you assume that the "crippled" version isn't even the FreeSans, but a fallback font? I couldn't find one that looks like this on my machine.
Here is the locate output; the location seems to stay the same, and no duplicates present.
2010-09-19 installed:
$ locate FreeSans
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf
$ sudo locate FreeSans
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf
2012-05-03 installed:
$ updatedb
$ locate FreeSans
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf
$ sudo locate FreeSans
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf
(file #25800, file #25801, file #25802)
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