Damn you, corefonts

NegaBenji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 90

I emerged the corefonts package the other day (as well as the bitstream-vera one) and edited the two font conf files to include my new stuff. I restarted X (XFree that is) and re-opened Konqueror to see how things were going. And they were going good - EXCEPT for on one website in particular which now had horribly distorted fonts for the main text. I went back, commented out the corefonts directories in those 2 conf files, and restarted X - and they're still messed up.

I think it's using the Arial font, but it's doing a really bad job of antialiasing it, but I have smaller fonts which look fine, so I'm not about to go limiting AA below a certain point size. The sans font in Konq is set to Luxi, which looks fine everywhere else, but the page itself specifies Arial before sans-serif and I'm sure it's still in the system somehow. The whole concept of having to define font directories in multiple places confuses me anyway, so I probably missed something. What can I do to get things readable again?

Jazz · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Umm could u post the config files those u edited ?
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NegaBenji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 90

Ok - here's /etc/fonts/local.conf

NegaBenji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 90

So nobody has any ideas here?

codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:58 am Post subject:

NegaBenji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 90

That's the problem, after I emerged the fonts I had the issue so I commented them out to try and hide them from my system so they wouldn't be used (until I could fix things at least), but the weird font's still being used and all the MS fonts are available in any font dialogs.

I don't get why you have to add these font directories in the configuration files when they don't even seem to affect anything...

30726 · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1501

Did you comment it out in /etc/fonts/local.conf as well? Apps using fontconfig looks in there for fonts.

NegaBenji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 90

Yeah, that's where my first code snippet is from.