On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:30, Alan Chandler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 4:03 pm, Felix Homann wrote: > > Does this mean there's something wrong with fontconfig or is it just the > > interplay of KDE and fontconfig? > > Can't be certain, since we haven't got to the bottom of what your problem > is. QT (and hence KDE) uses XFT (which then uses fontconfig to locate the > fonts) if it can find a match and then tends to fall back on the xserver > directly when in difficulty. Not sure what the others do. > > The problem you have must at least start with fontconfig. I assume (it > would be a strange configuration if it didn't) that it can find Helvetica > without problems. On the other hand Lucida Palatino is not so obvious - > and if it can't "find" that font by looking throught the directories in > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and examining the fonts.cache-1 files in each of > these directories it will fall back to the style hint that QT uses. > > The style hint is actually asking fontconfig to find a "family" called > "sans" or "monospace" or "serif" (depends which style hint you use). In > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf you will probably find some alias lines that turn > these names into a list of actual fonts (actually "sans" first gets to > converted to "sans-serif" and from there into a list of fonts). The font > match algorithmn used by font config will be to match the first on the list > that it can find (there are other factors but lets ignore them until we > find out that they are signficant). > > So the reason the fonts all look the same is that fontconfig is probably > mapping each request into Helvetica.
Update to last fontconfig or add "<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>" to /etc/fonts/local.conf and do fc-cache -f -v > Try looking in the directory where your Lucinda Palatino font is installed, > and see if the fonts.cache-1 file is there. Take a look at it, and check > the format (its pretty easy with a standard text editor) and see if you can > find the font. The font filename and the family name (and a host of other > parameters) should be obvious. > > - -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+awmzuFHxcV2FFoIRArbVAKCN5jP1Z89D2aEobZv1J/tbAkkSXACgihn6 > X64uHSo4z115diKWBrJ+YYc= > =9zkN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Filipe Sousa
