Re: helvetica-narrow fonts on sid
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On Thursday 17 Apr 2003 6:22 pm, Todd Charron wrote:
> I'm actually having the exact same problem with Nimbus Sans. Let me know
> if you find an answer.
>
> Todd
>
> On April 16, 2003 08:18 am, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > I'm running KDE3.1.1 on sid on ppc. I don't have the msttcorefonts
> > installed. I'm having a problem with the standard installed fonts.
> > Comparing the outpu from xfontsel and the possibilited offered by the KDE
> > font selection dialog, it seems that selecting Helvetica actually selects
> > Helvetica Narrow, which has a bizarre effect of making my screen seem
> > stretched out.
> >
> > Does anyone have ideas on how to fix this? (Aside from deleting helvetica
> > narrow, which I just may do.)
KDEs fonts are managed by fontconfig. In /etc/fonts you will find two files
(fonts.conf and local.conf) that between them define the directories to look
for fonts and the assumptions made to map font names being requested on to
real fonts.
The game is for you to modify local.conf to do what you want and leave
fonts.conf to be created by debian.
- From what you say, my suspicion is that you are missing a <dir>/path to
font</dir> from your fonts.conf file and so fontconfig is finding the
nearest.
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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