On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:49:44 -0700, Thelma ([email protected]) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in <[email protected]>):
[snip] >> I would start by deleting the *.ttf files in that directory (or move >> them elsewhere) and refreshing the font cache again. > > I removed them. > I have bunch of font helvetica: > find /usr/share/fonts/ -iname helv* > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR08-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvO14-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB24-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR14-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR10-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz > /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz Try the following, to see what fontconfig has cached: fc-list | egrep 'Helvetica' | sort | less > So which group do they belong to? The fonts above belong to the package media-fonts/fonts-adobe-75dpi. These are fonts optimized for rendering on display devices that have a pixel density of 75 dots per inch (dpi). A qlist for that package indicates that they do not have a fontconfig .conf file. However, fontconfig does cache them, since /usr/share/fonts is named in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > eselect fontconfig list [snip] The fonts configured by eselect are "exotic" fonts that are added to fontconfig. They are of no importance here. > I don't see anything starting with "helv" You won't see any such entry. > Maybe they are not enabled in my system? Run the fc-list command, as I suggested above. That will show you every font that purports to offer the Helvetica type face plus any other font attributes. Just to show you what to expect from Helvetica and Arial, here are a couple of Wikipedia articles: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial> These articles contain sample text rendered in the respective fonts. This will help you recognize Helvetica when you get it working. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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