bitmap font support broken in qt 3.3

[Dexter Filmore]

On Sat, 08 May 2004 22:20:17 -0700
James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:

> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to kde-3.2.2. since it needs qt-3.3 (at least here on
> > Slackware) I upgraded that, too.
> > After that I noticed qt doesn't support bitmap fonts anymore. 
> > This is seriously bad since TTF fonts in konsole suck royally, to give one
> > example (I like helvetica for taskbar, menu and the like, too).
> > 
> > Back to 3.2.1. I'm annoyed as hell.
> 
> You must have some configure issue for the Konsole fonts since it works for
> me.
> 
> Is it all sizes of the Konsole fonts that don't work, or just: "Large"?

using "very large" right now.

> 
> Or are you using the: "Linux" console font.
> 
> KDE installs three bitmapped fonts:
> 9x15.pcf.gz
> console8x16.pcf.gz
> console8x8.pcf.gz
> FontConfig needs to be able to find these fonts for them to work in 
> Konsole.  So, to debug this you need to determine where these fonts were 
> installed which should be "$KDEDIR/share/fonts/".  Then as root, open a 
> Konsole and execute:
> 
> 	fc-cache -vf
> 
> and make sure that that directory is listed and that the fonts are cached. 
>   E.G.:
> 
> fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 3 fonts, 5 dirs

$KDDIR is /opt/kde, and it's *not* listed in fc-cache - what can I do about
that?

> 
> if $KDEDIR is "/usr".
> 
> There are font NAME bugs in Qt so I would guess that that rather than the 
> fonts being bitmapped is the problem.
> 
> If you like Helvetica, I suggest that you install Type1 Helvetica:
> 
> You can install the Type1 fonts that come with AAR 3.x.
> You should be able to unpack this with WINE.
snip

Thanks for the info. Since this is quite a hack, I'll do it as soon as I find
time.

I talked to Trolltech and their very own words were "sorry, no bitmap fonts
anymore"

Dex
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