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volkmar Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your attention.
I have always had media-fonts/corefonts emerged and in the "Files" Section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Should there be a separate "Fonts" section?
The problem still remains. Any idea what else I could do to get it solved? |
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wynn Advocate
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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In your xorg.conf you should have Code: | Section "Files"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/" | You can check that Xorg sees them by looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, you should see something like Code: | (**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/,
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/,
/usr/share/fonts/aquapfont/,
/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/,
/usr/share/fonts/mikachan-font/,
/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/100dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/75dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/,
/usr/share/fonts/freefonts/,
/usr/share/fonts/intlfonts/,
/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts/,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ | (though you may not be such a fontaholic )
If it isn't there, look in /usr/share/fonts/corefonts for fonts.scale and fonts.dir â these should have been installed by media-fonts/corefonts. _________________ The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
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volkmar Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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What I am having in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is Code: | Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
EndSection | and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log there is Code: | (**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF,
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts,
/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts,
/usr/share/fonts/terminus,
/usr/share/fonts/unifont,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz | and also fonts.scale and fonts.dir are listed in /usr/share/fonts/corefonts.
I cannot see anything what's misconfigured or missing. Still appreciate your help. |
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wynn Advocate
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps it's a RTFM type problem
I've gone into Help / Adobe Reader Help F1 / Index / Fonts and found something that may be useful Quote: | The Fonts Panel lists the fonts and the font types used in the original document, and the fonts, font types, and encoding used to
display the original fonts. If substitute fonts are used and you arenot satisfied with their appearance, you may want to install the original fonts on your system or ask the document creator to re-create the document with the original fonts embedded in it. In addition to installing the fonts, you'll need to add the path to the font's directory to the PSRESOURCEPATH variable, which the Adobe Reader reads at startup. CoolType caches any font in that directory to be used for font substitution later. | You might like to try setting this environment variable and see what happens. _________________ The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
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volkmar Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for reminding me of the Acroread help file. From the document's properties I have got some more information regarding the fonts used there. Code: | Arial
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Ansi
Actual Font: Unknown | Copying and pasting those unreadable content into other applications turns it readable. Also xpdf displays those documents without problems.
Only acroread cannot display those characters correctly. Is this a bug in acroread or is it just bad coding in the pdf document? |
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wynn Advocate
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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It's probably a Microsoft encoding and the PDF has been created by a Microsoft app. From /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/encodings.dir Code: | microsoft-cp1258 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1258.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1257 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1257.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1256 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1256.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1255 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1255.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1254 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1254.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1253 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1253.enc.gz
microsoft-ansi /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1252.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1252 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1252.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1251 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1251.enc.gz
microsoft-cp1250 /usr/share/fonts/encodings/microsoft-cp1250.enc.gz | so Microsoft ANSI appears to be equivalent to microsoft-cp1252.
Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't suggest any further avenues to explore _________________ The avatar is jorma, a "duck" from "Elephants Dream": the film and all the production materials have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, see orange.blender.org for details. |
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