On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 10:44:50 -0800 Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:
> On 11/5/19 10:31 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:56:12 -0800 Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > > >> On 11/4/19 9:46 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> I upgraded to F31 late last week and I am missing the MiscFixed 16 font > >>> that I prefer using. Where would I find it? > >> > >> Where are you looking for it? Why do you think it's missing? > > > > Thanks for looking into this, I don't exactly know where to look for it, > > but the font is not accessed. > > > > For example, my sylpheed (mailer) has the following preferences to display > > my e-mail (in my sylpheedrc): > > > > message_font_name=Fixed 16 > > > > On my F30 machine, which is where I am typing from, the font displays just > > fine. On my F31 (which was upgraded from F30 last Friday), I get blocks of > > garbage characters. See: > > > > https://pasteboard.co/IFjCULo.png > > > > So, OK, this could be a sudden F31 issue with sylpheed. However, I don't > > think so because I get the same problem with sakura (terminal) which has > > the same font. See: > > > > https://pasteboard.co/IFjEes1.png > > > > Something is off in F31: I have the same packages installed as before (this > > was a clean upgrade, with no notifications, errors or warnings). > > Ok, that's what I was looking for. The funny thing is that I had just > been reading about how Pango can no longer use bitmap fonts like that. > I suspect that's what happened. There is some way to convert the bitmap > font to open type which can be used. I suggest doing a search for > "pango bitmap fonts" to see a lot of discussion about this and how to > work around it. Thanks very much! This is more complicated that I thought with unclear chances of success. Perhaps I can just roll my own pango rpm stuck at 1.43 for now and see whether that will do the work. I really like my font and would like to keep using it. Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
