Font problem

[James Richard Tyrer]

liste at hgfelger.de wrote:
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> Salut James,
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>>>which is opend with "choose...", there are fonts, that dont display a
>>>preview. As Adobe Helvetica is one of them,
>>
>>Is that Type 1 (PFA or PFB, & AFM), TrueType (TTF) or bit mapped (PCF
>>probably gzipped).
> 
> this is part of XFree86-fonts-100dpi-4.3.0-17 and these are pcf.gz
> For a test, I disabled all helv* and cour* in 100dpi and 75dpi folder, and
> then the site www.linux.org.uk/... did displayed again. But I have then
> still problems with sf.net. Also it seems to be a bit too much, as it is
> looking very differently... also sites which display before.
> 
> The fonts, which have problems with the "choose..." thing I mentioned
> before, is rather long:
> 
> Adobe Courir,
> Adobe Helvetica,
> Adobe New Century Schoolbook,
> Adobe Times,
> Adobe Utopia,
> B&H Lucida,
> B&H Ludiabright,
> B&H Lucida typewriter,
> Bitstream Terminal,
> Dec Terminal,
> Elt Fixed,
> Led Fixed,
> Misc Console,
> Misc Console Wide,
> Misc Fixed,
> Misc Fixed Wide,
> Mutt Clearlyn Wide,
> Schumacher Cleen,
> Sgi Haeberli,
> Sgi Haebfix,
> Sgi Screen,
> Sgi Screen Wide,
> Sony Fixed
>  >
> 
>>>quite some web-sites are affected by my problem.
>>>
>>>My System is a SuSE 8.1 based, KDE 3.1.2 (trigged by updating from 3.1.1,
>>>but not cured by re-downgrading to 3.1.1), P4-mobile-laptop.
>>>I downloaded RPMs.
>>
>>Did you upgrade Qt and aRts as well?
> 
> Yes I did.
> 
>>I can't make a specific diagnosis, but you are probably having
>>problems with Xft, FreeType2 and/or FontConfig.
> 
> I got xfs with XFree86 as a font-server
> as far, as I see, there are no doubles
> libXft is version 2.1 and 1.1
> libfontconfig is 1.1
> libfreetype 6.3.2
> 
> 
>>Also, you might have two versions of one, or more, of these packages
>>installed.  One in: "/usr/X11R6" and one in: "/usr/" or "/usr/local/".
>>
>>If you have FontConfig, your: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" might be screwed up.
> 
> I checked with rpm -qsf, and it sayed to be original...
> 
> 
>>Do you have, or are you using, scalable fonts?  or just "*.pcf.qz" fonts?
> 
> I have other font-types too, besides .pcf.gz

Do these other (Type 1 or TrueType I hope) fonts work correctly.

If so, this is probably a FontContig problem.

As root, run:

	fc-cache -v |grep misc

What does it say?

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JRT

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