On Tuesday 20 August 2002 14:20, Emanuele Gissi wrote: > I added the following line to /etc/X11/Xftconfig: > > match any family == "Helvetica" edit family = "Arial"; > > but it did not work...
Yes, XftConfig is confusing isn't it? Hopefully Qt 3.1 will support Xft2/fontconfig and this will be replaced by something a lot simpler. Anyway, try this, it's only a subtle difference, but it sort-of works for me: match any family == "Helvetica" edit family += "Arial"; Even then, Qt's current font selection strategy seems a little buggy - even with this font substitution, Qt still sometimes seems to pick Helvetica rather than Arial. I have both a bitmap and a Type1 Helvetica installed as well as TrueType Arial. In Konqueror, for font sizes that have a corresponding bitmap Helvetica available, it chooses the bitmap version. For all other sizes, it sees the font substitution and chooses Arial. In KWord, it gives me exactly what I ask it - if I ask it for bitmap Helvetica, it gives me that. If I ask for Type1 Helvetica, it gives me that. If I ask for Arial, it gives me Arial. In neither case is it doing what I want it to do, which is to ALWAYS give me Arial even if I explicitly ask for Helvetica. :( -- marm
