Thank you, but I don't think there's something wrong with fonts.conf, because GTK and Motif apps as well as OpenOffice have no problem displaying Helvetica. It seems to be a KDE-only problem!
Sorry, I should have mentioned that before... Regards, Felix PS: Of course I've tried fc-cache but nothing has changed. On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:03, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 3:29 am, Felix Homann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after my latest apt-get upgrade my fonts look very ugly. In particular > > Helvetica doesn't look like Helvetica anymore in KDE apps. In KDE's > > "Select Font" dialog there's no visible difference betwween Helvetica > > and Lucida, Palatino and some other fonts. > > > > Is this what Ralf Nolden mentioned a couple of days ago, that kdebase has > > to be rebuild with new libfontconfig? > > Install the debian fontconfig package - or if you already have it installed > try running fc-cache. > > If you still have problems - check what your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file is > doing with Helvetica - it sounds as though fontconfig is matching the > family "Helvetica" to something else. This could be for a number of > reasons - the most likely being that the Helvetica font is not being picked > up from where ever it is installed (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts subdir). > > -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
