Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 19:14:34 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

[...]

> Ok, there's the first problem. When I do xset q /home/$USER/.fonts is
> not listed:
> 
> Font Path:
>   /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/usr/share/fonts/artwiz,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType

I realized that on my system it is actually KDE that adds ~/.fonts to
the font path when I log in. So it seems normal that it is missing from
your font path since you do not use KDE. If you want, you can add

xset fp+ ~/.fonts

somewhere in startup/login scripts. However, as far as fontconfig is
concerned, the most important things seems to be that you have this

    <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.

[...]

> > $ fc-match snap
> > snap.pcf.gz: "snap" "Regular"
> > 
> 
> The above did not work initially, so I reinstalled using aptitude
> 'fontconfig' and 'fontconfig-config', now the above works.

[...]

> I tried this but no luck with the Dina font.
> 
> $ fc-match Dina
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"

Do you get any output from:

grep -i dina ~/.fonts/fonts.*

Can I download the Dina font from somewhere to experiment myself?

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