Re: [Fonts]fontconfig alias question
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:50:57 -0800 Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around 23 o'clock on Dec 26, Michael Guntsche wrote: Is it possbile to substitute/alias the Helvetica font with Verdana even if both are installed? (fc-list shows both) Yes, but this will *always* replace Helvetica with Verdana, even if you select helvetica in an application font menu. snip Sorry for the long time it took to reply Keith, but Christmas kept me busy around here ;) The solution you gave me, worked of course, and Im now enjoying nice AA fonts. Thanks and keep up your good work, Michael ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
[Fonts]Wrong CJK bitmap font size selected by fontconfig/Xft 2.1?
Hello, First of all, Happy New Year! :-) While testing the latest Red Hat 8.1 beta (Phoebe), during installation, fontconfig/Xft 2.1 appears to be selecting the wrong CJK bitmap font size when lang=en, as shown in the following screen capture: http://foka.homelinux.net/~foka/xft/phoebe-anaconda-en-chinese-24px.jpg switching to other languages, e.g. lang=de, seem to fix the problem: http://foka.homelinux.net/~foka/xft/phoebe-anaconda-de-chinese-16px.jpg Hanzi fonts available in the system: zh-CN: 16px and 24px PCF fonts zh-TW: AR PL Mingti2L Big5 (TrueType) ja: Kochi Gothic (TrueType) ko: (I forgot which one, probably Baekmuk Batang or Dotum; also TrueType) I couldn't figure out why disproportionally large 24px zh-CN font was selected in place of the closest 16px when lang=en. I have tried switching to all other languages, and it appears that only lang=en exhibits the problem. In the previous version (Red Hat 8.0, fontconfig 2.0, Xft 2.0), a more correct bitmap font size (16px instead of 24px) was selected even when lang=en. (I.e., it looks like phoebe-anaconda-de-chinese-16px.jpg) Is this issue the domain of fontconfig or Xft? Or Pango? Or something else altogether? I apologize for my ignorance, as I am not yet sure of the exact division of work among the three libraries. :-) Many thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ ___ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
Re: [Fonts]Wrong CJK bitmap font size selected by fontconfig/Xft 2.1?
Around 11 o'clock on Jan 2, Anthony Fok wrote: I couldn't figure out why disproportionally large 24px zh-CN font was selected in place of the closest 16px when lang=en. I have tried switching to all other languages, and it appears that only lang=en exhibits the problem. lang=en may force the 24px font because of coverage issues; it's possible the 16px font is missing some glyphs needed for English but not needed for German. You can check the language encoding supported by each font using fc-list, I don't have a 24 pixel font with support for zh-CN, but you should be able to see it with: $ fc-list :lang=zh-cn:pixelsize=24 family lang pixelsize Is this issue the domain of fontconfig or Xft? Or Pango? Or something else altogether? I apologize for my ignorance, as I am not yet sure of the exact division of work among the three libraries. :-) Font matching and selection is entirely within the province of fontconfig, although the generation of matching patterns is done by applications and libraries like Pango. You can watch the match process by enabling a couple of debugging levels within fontconfig: $ export FC_DEBUG=3 $ some random pango app This will generate quite a bit of output, but should provide sufficient information to see why one font is preferred to another, although you're likely to need to look a the fontconfig source to make much sense of the output. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ 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
