Re: The case of the missing Helvetica
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On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 4:46 pm, daniel huhardeaux wrote:
> David Z Maze wrote:
> >[...]
> >I know little enough about how GNOME 2 font selection works to track
> >down where this is going on. (The larger problem is that I get the
> >same ugly font in Galeon.) Any hints as to why this is happening? Is
> >it something on my machine, or a (presumably reported) bug in the font
> >system?
>
> You just upgraded? You're not alone, we are few with this problem
> (Galeon, Gaim, Mozilla, ...) Someone told me could be a gtk problem but
> I didn't get success :-(
I think the problem is probably related to a recent upgrade of fontconfig.
According to various posts on the list it is supposed to ask if you want to
include bitmapped fonts in its configuration. Well it never asked me, and
left them out. I expect that you were relying on a bitmapped font to provide
you with Helvetica.
Try looking at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and seeing if it includes all the <dir>
that encompasses all of your fonts (subdirectories are automatically
included).
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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