Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman <hawk3@eagnet.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote:
>>
>>> Where does KDE get its' font listing from? How can I determine if Helvetica
>>> is actually gone, or just missing from the list? Whether the former or the
>>> latter, how do I get it back? What package is it part of?
>>
>>Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font
>>you're missing?
>>
>>I noticed that with anti-aliasing turned on, I lose a lot of fonts in
>>KDE, including helvetica and misc-fixed, which are the two I use in
>>KDE's config.
>>
>>I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using
>>KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart
>>KDE, and see if you get the normal list of fonts back. (Or maybe
>>someone else has an actual solution? That would be nice.)
>
>With AA turned on, KDE will ignore all bitmap fonts as they can't be
>AA'd.
Quick followup: it seems like it's actually QT which discards bitmap
fonts. At least I'm observing the same effect under Opera's font
settings.
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Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
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