[Fonts] Non Latin font names.
Another issue from the KDE support lists. Does FontConfig deal correctly with non-Latin font names. The example posted is: http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/ The first font on the list is non-Latin. The encoding is gb2312. In Hex it is: eb ee ec e5. How does FontConfig handle such a font name. It would appear that it might also have to deal with the fact that KDE/Qt might convert it to either: UTF8: e5 ae 8b e4 93 16 bit: 5b8b 4f53 If this does work with FontConfig, which encoding should be used? any help would be appreciated. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] Fontmap fiiles PostScript font names
Have we considered that the: fonts.cache-n files should contain the PostScript font names? This appears to be a needed step towards eliminating the need for a: Fontmap file in each font directory. Or, perhaps this should be added to FreeType2 or Xft[2]. But, in any case, stuff would run faster if a PostScript driver didn't have to read the font files to get this information -- if it were cached. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts] Strange problem with core fonts and LCD display
Leandro Gelasi wrote: Hi to all, I spent all the last week in solving font problem on my new workstation (HP XW4000). My configuration: - Linux Slackware 9.0 - XFree 4.3.0 - KDE 3.1.1a - Matrox MGA 550 - LCD monitor Philip 150S3h After many tries I got a decent configuration for True Type fonts, which are now correctly displayed and aliased. Problems are still there with core X11 fonts. All applications that don't use FreeType (or are using a standard font, not TTF) displays very ugly fonts. I obtained a small quality gain starting XFree at 110 dpi. It seems to be a monitor problem, since the same monitor give the same results if connected to another computer (completely different config., this one uses XFree 4.2.1 on Slack 8.1). Any help will be very appreciated. In general, ugly fonts are probably the result of scaling bit mapped fonts. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts] can't open default font 'fixed'
kenneth campbell wrote: Hello, I have been running xwindows on 7.2 RH for some time. Today upon startx I received error 104-can't open default font 'fixed'. Any advice...thanks in advance. Are the attached the characters you need: UTF8 encoding. They are in Arial Unicode, ClearlyU, BitStream Courier (that comes with XFree86??), and I think also the fonts that come with Adobe Acrobat Reader. -- JRT ӨөҮү
Re: [Fonts] fonts problem after 4.3 update
Michael Felsberg wrote: Hi, I updated to XFree 4.3 and have some trouble with the fonts: problem: fc-cache hangs in the cyrillic font-dir solution: I removed the cyrillic fonts (don't need them) problem: the text in certain widget sets does not show up, instead the buttons become _very_ wide (about 10 screens) solution: ? problem: although I can preview the misc-fixed fonts with xfontsel, they are invisible in KDE (e.g. konsole). solution: ? Does anybody have an idea? When you upgrade to XFree86 you also upgrade Xft, so you need to rebuild Qt with the new version of Xft. It is also possible that you will need to delete all files: font.cache* and run: fc-cache again. The fonts probably don't show up in the Konsole because: fc-cache didn't find them. KDE installs three fonts in: $KDEDIR/share/fonts/. One of these is 9x15.pcf.gz which is used in Konsole. If this isn't: /usr/share/fonts/, move the fonts there and replace the directory: $KDEDIR/share/fonts/ with a link. If: pc-cache doesn't find them, UnGzip the three fonts. When you run: pc-cache -v what does it show for: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/. If it doesn't find the fonts, the problem is a bit obscure. I found that: fc-cache doesn't find the fonts on install and it doesn't find them unless I have PanGo for GNOME-2.2 installed. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts] where to include ~/.fonts.conf (was: fontconfig aliasquestion)
Mike FABIAN wrote: I wonder where in /etc/fonts.fonts.conf exactly is the best place to put the include statement for ~/.fonts.conf. It cannot be at the very end of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf because then the following would not work: Put it at the end of the list starting with: dir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dir -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts] fc-cache and gzipped bit mapped fonts
After I installed FCPackage-2.1, I think that as I had read elsewhere that: fc-cache failed to recognize gzipped PCF fonts. When I ran it yesterday after adding additional Type 1 fonts to my: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ directory and it found all of the: *.pcf.gz font files in the subdirectories of: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. However, despite the fact that I added: dir/usr/kde3/share/fonts/dir to the: /etc/fonts.conf file, it will not find the three: *.pcf.gz font files in that directory. It will, however, find them if I gunzip them. I am somewhat confused. :-| Does any of this depend on stuff in GNOME-2? I have been installing it from source and built a few more packages last week. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]Could not init Fonts'Fixed
Danika Rodriguez wrote: I recently installed the nvidia 3123 drivers under Red Hat 8.0 and could not startX because of error: Could not init font'fix. Anyone know how to fix this error. I am losing patience Probably the font: fixed. Normally this font is in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ This directory with the font: fixed must be in the: FontPath in: XF86Config or X will refuse to start. So check the: XF86Config file and also the: fonts.dir file (in that directory) for XLFDs that start with: -misc-fixed- -- there should be several. There can also be other more obscure reasons that X can't find the font: fixed. -- JRT ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
