After recent upgrade to Daniel Stone's X4.3 packages, most things went very smooth. There was the problem with type1 renderer going out of hand, but it was easily solved as per Branden's suggestions (though they concerned only X4.2). However 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. Thanks! -- Psi -- <http://www.iki.fi/pasi.savolainen>
