* Pasi Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... I experience a problem which I have big problems > explaining. > Helvetica -font rendering seems 'out-of-hand', it always defaults to > something looking like: > '-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-*-240-*-*-p-*-iso8859-15' or more > precisely > '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-O-Normal--34-240-100-100-P-182-ISO8859-15'. (I > found those with gtkfontsel, which _was_ able to show other > helvetica. KDE (3.1.1) showed that (24pt font..) event when explicitly > told to show 11(pt/px, which they don't tell). > Also Mozilla & Opera showed that big font, always when no specific > point-size was mentioined in style, for example simple '<p><font > face=Helvetica>boo</font' would show with cat-sized letters. > > There really wouldn't be much of problem, but many web-pages use > helvetica and become thus unreadable as this huge font skews layout > (overlaps badly, at least in opera). > > I don't think I have anything special in conf-files, simple reordering > in XF86Config-3. XftConfig untouched, as is /etc/font/local.conf.
This is quite a long delay, but as I've had at least couple of enquiries about resolving this.. I apparently had a .bdf/.pcf version of Helvetica on a top level font directory (that's how kcontrol's font management showed it). After removing it (Helvetica from top-level), and restarting applications problem went away. (This problem was actually 'resolved', but resurfaced after installing an application that used helvetica). I can't even guess a reason why that single helvetica glyphclump was there. It admittedly is from one of my programs, but I'm quite sure I didn't install it as a font. Could be a case of 'click-yes-installitis'. -- Psi -- <http://www.iki.fi/pasi.savolainen>
