RE: Fonts on KDE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald R. Spoon [mailto:dspoon@astcomm.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:43 PM
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Fonts on KDE
>
>
> Charlie Reiman wrote:
> > I've got Debian sid (2.4.18 kernel) with kde 2.2.2 installed on
> my Omnibook
> > 500. I'm having a hard time getting fonts to behave. Is there a
> decent FAQ
> > covering font installation? I'd really love something with a
> troubleshooting
> > diagram.
> >
> > I have anti-aliasing working. My problem is KDE itself only seems to
> > recognize about 10 fonts in the look & Feel:Fonts panel
> (courier 10 pitch,
> > nimbus, a few others). KDE will render Helvitica but I can't
> select it in
> > the picker. KWord also seems to let me select from about 10
> different fonts.
> >
> > This is a KDE problem since gfontsel seems to recognize over 100 fonts,
> > including my true type fonts, but it has problems with some
> (not all) 2 byte
> > fonts. gfontview seems to render everything as long as I point it at the
> > right directory. Crufty old xfontsel seems to recongnize all my
> fonts and
> > renders them just fine.
> >
> > "xlsfonts | wc -l" gives 5462, so there are plenty of fonts
> installed as far
> > as X is concerned.
> >
> > How do I get KDE to at least recognize my TT fonts?
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Charlie.
> >
>
> Charlie,
>
> It just so happens that I have recently did a "fresh" install of Debian
> Woody, then upgraded to "testing" and installed the msttcorefonts
> package AND ran into the same problem as you! I had a "working" KDE
> system before the re-install, so I had to re-create my previous steps.
>
> As it turned out, all I had to do was modify the /etc/X11/XftConfig file
> and add the new Defoma path names to get access to the TrueType fonts
> from the status you described. Basically, I had to make the changes
> recommended during the x-ttcidfont package config when it was installed!
> I also had to start (restart?) the xfs server to read in the new /
> modified file.
>
> Here is my /etc/X11/XftConfig file:
>
> # $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/XftConfig.cpp,v 1.8 2001/11/21 23:41:12
> keithp Exp $
>
> dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> # dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
> dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
> dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
>
> #
> # alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
> #
> match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";
>
> #
> # Check users config file
> #
> includeif "~/.xftconfig"
>
> #
> # Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local
> # fonts
> #
> match any family == "charter" edit family += "bitstream
> charter";
> match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter";
>
> There is some other stuff that you can do with this file to clean up
> hinting and aliases, that I have not done here. That is described in
> the /usr/share/doc/anti-aliasing-howto/XftConfig.examples file on your
> computer. You might be interested in some of that too..
>
> HTH,
> -Don Spoon-
Thanks. That stopped the hurting. I'm still not sure why image fonts
(wingdings, etc) don't render correctly but at least I can stop using
bitstream for everything.
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