Re: Helvetica disappeared from KDE!
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Romer <gromer@hmc.edu> wrote:
>> Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font
>> you're missing?
>
>Yeah, there's the problem. Turning off AA fixed it.
>
>> 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.)
>
>Well, the real solution is to find scalable versions of Helvetica and
>other worthwhile fonts. The only package I can find that provides those
>is the msttcorefonts package. Assuming you can stomach using fonts from
>Microsoft, the big problem is that the package currently does not use the
>defoma font system, so installing the package does not automatically allow
>those fonts to be used in X- you need to get them recognized by X by hand,
>something I have not yet figured out how to do. Any advice would, naturally,
>be appreciated.
The fonts are mostly Monotype fonts licennced by MS, if that eases
your pain. Alternatively, try the (free) URW fonts in gsfonts. These
are Type 1, though.
For TT fonts, ttmkfdir will generate a list of XLFDs suitable for
fonts.scale files for you.
--
Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
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