On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 04:42:57PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Hi people. > > I installed the package ttf-commercial from woody in my Debian unstable in > order to have M$ fonts and it screw up all my fonts in kde. You need the msttcorefonts package to use the MS fonts, not ttf-commercial. > Kde applications (I'm using antialiasing) can show only micosoft fonts, even > if you select a linux font (helvetica) what you see is a ms font. > > This do not happen in gnome 1.4 applications, but do happen in gnome 2. So I > think it has to be related to antialliasing. KDE3 and GNOME2 use a new font system called 'fontconfig'. It's configured in /etc/fonts/, instead of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Uncomment the lines referencing bitmap fonts in /etc/fonts/local.conf to get Helvetica and such back. Note that they seem to look like crap with some versions of fontconfig, but it's worth a try... Oh, and GNOME1.4 doesn't, which explains the discrepancy there. > Can I rebuild the font index? 'fc-cache -f' will rebuild the fontconfig cache. > On Saturday 17 May 2003 9:48 am, Joseph Barillari wrote: > > >>>>> "V" == Vittorio <vdemart@supereva.it> writes: > > > > V> Context: Debian testing + gnome 1.4 + Mozilla (coming with testing) > > V> wit no special setting at all. > > > > V> How can I improve the aspect of fonts in Mozilla whit respect to MS > > V> Explorer? > > > > V> I mean that in many sites the fonts in M$ Internet Explorer seems to > > V> be somewhat clearer, neater. sharper than in Mozilla. Perhaps I need > > V> to set something. > > > > V> Any hint? > > > > Have you installed the msttcorefonts package? --Joe > > > > > > V> Vittorio > > > > > > V> -- > > V> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > > V> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > > > -- > > Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org > > ------------------------------------------------------- If you're going to reply to your own message with a repeat (!) after only a few hours, could you at least trim it? Thanks... -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: cypherpunk Debian clones Ron Brown threat S Key warfare
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