Re: Serifed ttf fonts in KDE3.1 (Sid)
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On Friday 14 Feb 2003 8:11 pm, Michael Epting wrote:
> I'm amazed that nobody else has mentioned this. I have two different
> computers running up to date KDE 3.1 from Sid and both exhibit identical
> symptoms even though they are configured quite differently.
>
> Select Fonts in KDE Control Center and then chose any item, Desktop, for
> example. Select a serifed truetype font, such as Times New Roman. The
> font shows up unserifed, like maybe Arial. Some other serifed fonts,
> such as Times, display correctly. If I turn off anti-aliasing all the
> fonts show up correctly, but the ttf's are so ugly as to be unusable.
>
> Both gfontview and xfontsel show the offending fonts correctly.
>
> One of my machines is using xfs and the other has only X's built-in font
> server (i.e., # FontPath "unix/:7100" is commented out in
> XF86Config-4 and ps shows no xfs process). On the other machine xfs is
> running and referenced at the top of XF86Config-4. I have tried many
> variations in XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/Xftconfig and /etc/X11/fs/config
> and been careful to restart X and/or xfs each time.
>
Do you have fontconfig installed? This seems to cause some problems like this.
A work around is to edit .qt/qtrc and change enableXft to false.
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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