> -----Original Message----- > From: Laura Rudmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:43 AM > To: Charlie Reiman > Subject: Re: Fonts on KDE > > > Charlie Reiman wrote: > > >I've got Debian sid (2.4.18 kernel) with kde 2.2.2 installed on > my Omnibook > >500. I'm having a hard time getting fonts to behave. Is there a > decent FAQ > >covering font installation? I'd really love something with a > troubleshooting > >diagram. > > > > You know, I saw a pretty good looking article on Slashdot.org [actually > elsewhere, > but covered on slashdot] linked to about font deuglification in Debian > about a month ago. > > Doing an advanced search on Google for "Debian font howto install > site:slashdot.org", > I see that the slashdot article was: > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/25/107204.shtml > > The original article was not a working link, but going over to debian, I > see it here: > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html > > Among other things, it told how to use the font hints and all to make > them actually > look decent on the screen. > > See if this helps. If it works, leave a "problem solved message" that > points to the website, > or tells what you did. > > > > >I have anti-aliasing working. My problem is KDE itself only seems to > >recognize about 10 fonts in the look & Feel:Fonts panel (courier > 10 pitch, > >nimbus, a few others). KDE will render Helvitica but I can't select it in > >the picker. KWord also seems to let me select from about 10 > different fonts. > > > >This is a KDE problem since gfontsel seems to recognize over 100 fonts, > >including my true type fonts, but it has problems with some (not > all) 2 byte > >fonts. gfontview seems to render everything as long as I point it at the > >right directory. Crufty old xfontsel seems to recongnize all my fonts and > >renders them just fine. > > > >"xlsfonts | wc -l" gives 5462, so there are plenty of fonts > installed as far > >as X is concerned. > > > >How do I get KDE to at least recognize my TT fonts? > > > >Thanks for any help > > > >Charlie.
You're thinking of this document: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ which covers how to get TT fonts installed and anti-aliased. I've got them installed and anti-aliased just fine but KDE doesn't see them. Gnome tools and gronky old X tools do. So I'm thinking I'm missing some KDE specific index file but I'm not sure what it is. I suppose it's also possible I've got some bad configuration that KDE chokes on but gnome and X just breeze past. I appreciate the help though. This document http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html might be more relevent for me although it is old.
