[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts: was: New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-09 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2024-07-07, Jack wrote: > To how fonts are designed, many if not most modern fonts (such as > true-type) are specified internally by the commands to draw each > character, and you request the size in points. The conversion to how > many pixels to use is based on the DPI the system thinks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 Mar 2017 19:52:18 Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag > truetype disabled .. so `-truetype'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > >> >> Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag > truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Wh

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled without support for -fa > Note

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: [...] Harry wrote: [...] >> googling for hours on this I find xterm can understand a different >> switch `xterm -fa bla-bla' >> >> However, xterm as installed from portage does not understand that >> switch at all. >> >> Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 01:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > > [...] > >> Please clarify ... ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), >> ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), and/or specific xterm ( i.e >> "x11-terms/xterm" ). > > This is a full X host running lxde for desktop Th

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Corbin Bird writes: [...] > Please clarify ... > ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), > ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), > and/or specific xterm ( i.e "x11-terms/xterm" ). This is a full X host running lxde for desktop The xterm I speak of is the real McCoy .. the one Thomas Dic

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, font support in acroread got broken. Mo

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, >>> font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents >>> generated by MS O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, >>> font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, >> font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents >> generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, > font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents > generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most common > font that doesn't render properly is Ariel. Acrore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

2012-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.02.2012 21:32, schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how >> to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when >> this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

2012-02-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how > to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when > this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is > hardly readable. I am normally worki

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts.

2011-11-26 Thread Jörg Schaible
Stayvoid wrote: >> Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts > That didn't work for me. /usr/local/share/fonts > >> Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} > Could you be more specific?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

2011-06-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 19:59:36 Indi wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 02:37:32PM -0400, CJoeB wrote: > > On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > In System Settings, in the "System Administration" section, there is a > > > "Font Installer" icon. > > > > Okay, I AM stupid - not normally,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

2011-06-04 Thread Indi
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 02:37:32PM -0400, CJoeB wrote: > On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote: > >> Hi all. > >> > >> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to > >> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

2011-06-04 Thread CJoeB
On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to >> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install, >> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *ha

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

2011-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote: Hi all. Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install, there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for this, but haven't found anything relevant.

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and OpenOffice

2009-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/11/2009 06:46 PM, Marco wrote: how can i see if a font is a bitmap or a truetype? If it offers all sizes instead of only a few ones, it's truetype. If not, it's bitmap. I don't think a truetype version of Helvetica is in any portage package. You will have to grab the font from somew

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts after xorg-server and nvidia upgrade [PARTIALLY SOLVED]

2006-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:32:10 +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: > I would still like to have the lastest xorg-server :) Even though it doesn't work for you? Packages are usually masked for a reason. -- Neil Bothwick Yoda of the Borg am I. Futile, resistance is. Be assimilated, you will. signa

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts after xorg-server and nvidia upgrade [PARTIALLY SOLVED]

2006-04-24 Thread Catalin Trifu
Downgrading to xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 and downgrading the xf86-input-mouse to 1.0.4 and -keyboard to 1.0.1.3 (needed by ABI stuff) worked. I would still like to have the lastest xorg-server :) Catalin Trifu wrote: > Hi, > > > After upgrading the nvidia drivers to version 1.0.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-06 Thread Grant
> > > I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. > > > Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? > > > > > > - Grant > > > Did you try deleting directories related to .kde. > Also try deleting .fonts.conf and .Xresources. I hope that you have not > custo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:17, Grant wrote: > > I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. > > Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? > > > > - Grant > Did you try deleting directories related to .kde. Also try deleting .fonts.conf and .Xresources.

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-04 Thread Grant
> > I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. > > Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? > > > > - Grant > > Are there a couple of packages I should try to re-emerge? Any hints > at all. The fonts basically look really rough. Like the opposite of

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-03 Thread Grant
> I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. > Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? > > - Grant Are there a couple of packages I should try to re-emerge? Any hints at all. The fonts basically look really rough. Like the opposite of anti-aliased.