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Fonts, fonts, and all blasted fonts ;)

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joho

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Friday, May 2nd 2003, 11:00am

Fonts, fonts, and all blasted fonts ;)

Having installed SuSE 8.2 Professional (which includes KDE 3.1.1) from scratch, I was very happy and satisfied with how things worked. That is, until I made the mistake of running some "Install MS Truetype fonts" script (while logged in as root).

Now, I a) do not feel comfortable with the way fonts are displayed/handled/rendered in KDE in general and b) am not as satisfied as I was running KDE 3.0 (which was later RPM-upgraded to 3.1) on SuSE 8.1.

In KDE-applikations (and KDE itself), I only have a handful of fonts to choose from, and among those, the Microsoft TTF:s. If I go into non-native KDE apps, like OpenOffice, there is a sh*tload of fonts to choose from.

Also, when I was running KDE 3.0/3.1 under SuSE 8.1, I used "Tahoma" (from Microsoft) as my base font, size 7 or 8 and things looked and rendered nicely - now with KDE 3.1.1 and SuSE 8.2, Tahoma size 7/8 look terrible.

(No, this is not an anti-aliasing problem ;)
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Friday, May 9th 2003, 1:20pm

Something similar happens to me. I have RH8, and I wanted to use all the Microsoft fonts for the browser (I use Konqueror).
The problem is that I can use the Microsoft fonts in all the programs I have, except in KDE-programs (in the Control Center -translating from spanish- the fonts simply doesn't appear in the list).
Some weeks ago, I read that it could be because only newely created users could use the lastest installed fonts, but it didn't work.
I don't know what to do, any solutions?
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Friday, May 9th 2003, 1:23pm

I ended up modifying .fonts.conf in the user's home directory to look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfp-fix/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/</dir>
<match target="pattern" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Webdings</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="encoding" >
<string>glyphs-fontspecific</string>
</edit>
<edit name="prefer_bitmap" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
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Friday, May 9th 2003, 1:25pm

Also, what happened to me between SuSE 8.1 and SuSE 8.2 is that when using SuSE 8.1, I configured KDE to use Tahoma (size 8) _everywhere_. Things looked nice, right size, clear and crisp.. then came SuSE 8.2 along, and even if I configure all of KDE to use Tahoma (size 8), the fonts look like crap and are incorrectly sized.

(They are not jagged or "pixelated", they simply do not look good)

This whole font story with KDE/X really annoys me :-(
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Friday, May 9th 2003, 2:45pm

Thanks for your reply, but after posting this I continued reading more posts, and I eventually found a solution (it is somewhere in another fonts related topic). It says something about doing a fc-cache (or something linke that).
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