Kde 3.1 font problem: squares instead of letters

alinv · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 395 Location: Bucharest

Some fonts doesn't look too good in kde (see link below):
The same pages look ok in mozilla

http://64.191.10.2/snapshot3.png (41k)

I re-emerged pretty much everything which could have anything to do with it (xfree-4.3.0, kde-3.1, fontconfig-2.1, freetype-2.1.3...)

Any suggestion would be highly appreciated

Alin
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jimmybfan · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:04 pm Post subject:

I've got the same problem, seems to be only some of the Type1 fonts i have installed. All the truetype fonts seem to be working. Other than that i don't know whats going on.
Here are the fonts that don't display
Terminal [Bitstream]
Terminal [DEC]
Times
New Century Schoolbook
Lucidatypewriter
Lucidabright
Lucida
Helvetica
Fixed [Sony]
Fixed [Misc]
Fixed [Jis]
Clearlyu
Clean
Charter

Any suggestions much appreciated

[edit] actally it seems to be the 100dpi and.org 75dpi fonts that arent recognized[/edit]

phypor · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

i changed to a different font that fixed it.

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jimmybfan · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:53 am Post subject:

Yeah, that works, but there are still some programs/webpages that look for a specific font and when that happens, still got squares.

jimmybfan · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 2:58 am Post subject:

Ok, I got it fixed, for me at least. All I had to do was swap the lines in XF86Config that delt with the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts, i. e change

alinv · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 395 Location: Bucharest

Nope, it doesn't work for me

I already tried different combinations, still no luck...
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choward · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 92

I had this problem and managed to fix it. I checked the css page for a website that was causing me problems (www.woundedpaw.com/main.css) and found that the problems were caused by an incorrectly installed Tahoma font. I deleted the offending fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and copied a new version from a friend's windows partition. I restarted X and everything worked!

BTW, the KDE Control panel has a _wonderful_ font control panel! Just remember to switch to Administrator Mode.
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alinv · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 395 Location: Bucharest

I emerged the latest xfree (4.3.0-r1) and surprise!, I got all the fonts back

But kdm was starting very slowly, so I run fc-cache to speed things a little. The result is that now I have tiny little white squares instead of all 100dpi and 75dpi fonts.

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jimmybfan · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject:

Alright, so i was wrong about my solution, not working anymore. It seems that running fc-cache screws up the 100dpi and 75dpi fonts.

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

found the squares in place of characters for most fonts. It turns out that only root had permissions for the fonts in the truetype directory. Changing the permissions on all the files there fixed it for me.
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jimmybfan · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 9:37 am Post subject:

Ok, i got it to work again. This time i changed to fonts.conf to not serach the 75 and 100dpi folders by adding all the other paths in place of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts entry and now all the fonts are working.

alinv · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 395 Location: Bucharest

Yes, this will do for now:)

Thanks a lot!

Alin
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dazk · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:32 pm Post subject:

MeanGuy · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 38

yep, worked for me too, "swapping the 75dpi and 100dpi"
thanx
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