Horrible fonts again [RESOLVED]

patrickbores · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: Horrible fonts again [RESOLVED]

Well, another update of fontconfig, and once again my fonts have turned ugly- they're huge, they have poor anti-aliasing, you know the deal. This is getting harder and harder to fix. I don't understand why updating fontconfig always wrecks my fonts.

Anyway, I was thinking that maybe someone could help me out by posting the contents of all of their relevant font files? I've know of the following:

/etc/X11/fs/config
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/fonts/local.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thanks,
Patrick
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P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

syntax4head · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 21

The fonts that keep breaking are really getting on my nerves too. Anyway, I spent some time surfing forums and using grep and diff among my machines and here is what I came up with:
First back up your /etc/fonts/font.conf file. Then, delete:
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>
from near the top of the config.
That should fix it this time around.

patrickbores · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

Well, I've solved it. My fonts now look decent. The trick was to add the following to my /etc/fonts/local.conf file: