Various problems in X - font related?

jaccort · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 54

Yesterday I updated XPDF from 2.03 to 3.0.

This necessitated emerging media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 and updating ghostscript to app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7.

Since then, I have noticed that text was considerably smaller, the selection of fonts available was greatly reduced, text in menu bars in firefox far smaller (see here - it's not very clear but menu bar text should be a lot bigger than that) and OpenOffice prone to crashing.

I've seen such symptoms before - IME, they're indicative of font issues. So I put ghostscript and XPDF back to their previous versions, and unmerged gnu-gs-fonts-std. However, this has not fixed any of the above issues.

Can anyone make any suggestions?[/url]

jaccort · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 54

I spent much of the afternoon messing around, achieved precisely nothing and shut my machine down.

Rebooted this evening and everything is back to normal!

It seems that either fonts in X suck - or my understanding sucks. Possibly both. Is there any documentation anywhere which explains exactly how fonts in X work without making reference to specific aims a user may have?