[kde-doc-english] X11 fonts

[Rudy J. Richardson]

Yuri,

Thanks. I appreciate your thoughtful answer despite the fact that I might 
have mis-directed my inquiry.

Best wishes,

Rudy

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:

> ???????? Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:29:38 +0200, Rudy J. Richardson 
> <rjrich at umich.edu>:
>
>> Yuri,
>> 
>> Thank you for your reply and your request for more information. I am 
>> running a crystallography application that uses X11 to draw its GUI. It has 
>> no "preferences" dialogue and apparently picks up its font from what is 
>> available to X11. I have many fonts installed in my system that are 
>> available to other applications such as LibreOffice. However, for the 
>> crystallography application, I cannot change the font, which currently 
>> looks bad. If I run "xlsfonts" to see which fonts are available to the X 
>> server, I get only old generic fonts and I do not see my TrueType or Type1 
>> fonts. I have tried adding font paths to my Xorg.conf file, but this does 
>> not work.
>> 
>> BTW, I know about the font management utility in KDE and I also use the 
>> Gnome Font Manager from KDE. I also know about Font Matrix, but I do not 
>> need to design or tweak fonts for my work. The most I would need is the 
>> ability to select fonts for X11 and perhaps be able to turn on options such 
>> as hinting and antialiasing, as I can for most of the applications that I 
>> run under linux/KDE.
>> 
>> Thanks again.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Rudy
>
> Dear Rudy,
>
> It is somewhat strange that xlsfonts does not show the T1 and TTF/OTF fonts. 
> In my system (Mageia 2) it does show all the fonts installed (I mean even 
> fonts automatically imported from Windows installation by drakfonts). Can it 
> be that the fonts were not properly installed into your system? If so it may 
> help to report bug against the installer and ask developers about workaround 
> or hotfix.
>
> It is also hard to say if it is possible to use non-raster fonts in some 
> crystallography application without even know the name of the application 
> (DRAWxtl, XCrySDen, something proprietary?). ;)
>
> In any case, the question raised is not in the scope of this list ("This is a 
> list for people who are writing documentation for the KDE project and its 
> software.") as it is not a question of documentation, IMHO.
>
> It can be that the rapid and useful information on this problem can be 
> obtained from your distribution support channels (Scientific Linux, RHEL, 
> openSUSE, Debian, something else?), the crystallography application mailing 
> lists or general KDE user support channels (mailing list or IRC [1]). There 
> are much more competent in X11 tweaking people there.
>
> Just my 2 cents. Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri
>
> [1] http://userbase.kde.org/Getting_Help
>
>> 
>> On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>> 
>>> ???????? Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:33:58 +0200, <rjrich at umich.edu>:
>>> 
>>>> Please include information on how to make fonts available to X11.
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Can you clarify what do you mean by "how to make fonts available to X11".
>>> 
>>> By the way, KDE has built-in font management utility. It can be run from 
>>> System Settings (Font management) or from KRunner (Alt+F2, "kcmshell4 
>>> fontinst", Enter).
>>> 
>>> The help is available from the Font management window or from 
>>> docs.kde.org:
>>> 
>>> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html
>>> 
>>> If you are a professional designer, I recommend you to use Fontmatrix:
>>> 
>>> http://fontmatrix.be/
>>> 
>>> Fontmatrix is written on Qt, so it has a native look and fell in KDE 
>>> environment.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Yuri
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