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SirJoltalot
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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 5:08 am Post subject: Fontconfig local.conf anti-aliasing |
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Hi,
My fontconfig is actually working ok. I do have a few minor issues, however:
(1) Sometimes when I'm browsing, web pages will still come up using old, non-TTF fonts, like the old "Times" or "Helvetica" fonts. I guess it's when the page has a <font> tag that specifically requests "Helvetica" instead of "sans". In my /etc/fons/local.conf, however, I do have the following:
| Code: | <alias>
<family>Times</family>
<accept><family>Times New Roman</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<accept><family>Arial</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<accept><family>Courier New</family></accept>
</alias>
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This doesn't seem to do what I want. I still sometimes see Times, Helvetica and Courier cropping up on some web pages.
Is there any way for me to do a "subtractive" configuration in local.conf? One of my problems with the idea of "never, ever touch foo.conf - use local.conf instead" is exactly this. That's all fine and good for adding options, but what about removing? Can I say "actually, don't use the list of dirs in fonts.conf to look for fonts" and specify new locations that do not include the old fonts?
(2) Recently I upgraded to OpenOffice 1.0.3 and now nothing in OO is antialiased. It used to be before - all I did was get the new version, and now I get no anti-alias lovin :(
(3) Finally, a long time ago, my GTK 1.x apps stopped doing bold fonts. They do bold italic fonts ok, just not bold. Anybody else seen that? I know it's probably not related to fontconfig, but it sure is weird...
If these 3 small things could be fixed, my fonts would be pretty much flawless! I would really enjoy that!
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Lycander
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| What web browser do you use? For me, I use Mozilla and in the font preferences is the option to force all pages to use your defined font, so no matter what the website specifies, I always see my chosen fonts. |
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st.john
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Joined: 25 Nov 2002
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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(1) I couldnt figure out how to set this up in local.conf either, so i went into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and deleted all the directories except encodings / misc / truetype / TTF, and that seems to have worked, now the aliases substitute the right font, havnt noticed any negative side effects YMMV.
(2) Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/View/Screen font antialiasing
(3) Im not sure what I did to solve it, but make sure there are no capitals or spaces in the names of your fonts, probably a truetype you downloaded ala Bitstream Vera's =) , just rename them and they will still show up as normal in your applications.
You should run fc-cache, maybe restart X after (1) and (3)
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SirJoltalot
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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(1) Well the thing is I do still kinda need helvetica, etc. because some apps really want them (Wine and Acroread, in particular) and look really messed up without those fonts.
(2) First thing I checked, it's turned on. I use Xinerama, though, and I was just looking at the OO site and they say that AA is turned off if OO detects Xinerama. I don't know why, it seems kinda weird. The thing is that I definitely did used to have AA in OO, even with Xinerama. Hmmm...
(3) Ok, I'll look into the capitals/spaces thing. Thx!
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volusene
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Putting
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<match target="pattern">
<edit name="prefer_outline">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
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in your /etc/fonts/local.conf should replace Helvetica with Arial, Times with Times New Roman, and Courier with Courier New.
Don't know about your OOo and GTK problems, though, sorry. |
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SirJoltalot
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hrm, that match target="pattern" thing didn't work. After moving my .fonts.cache file out of the way, re-running fc-cache and rebooting, I still get aliased helvetica, lucida, times, etc. in Galeon and Mozilla.
And OO is still aliased. Grr. But the GTK thing seems to have fixed itself. Cool.
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cdb
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One thing I noticed the other day is the default fontconfig file doesn't pick up the TT fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype (ie, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, etc, etc). Adding the following to my local.conf and then running fc-cache -fv fixed it so the TT fonts are displayed in apps instead of non-aliased ones.
| Code: | <!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>
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jcosters
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Location: Gent, Belgium
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| cdb wrote: | One thing I noticed the other day is the default fontconfig file doesn't pick up the TT fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype (ie, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, etc, etc). Adding the following to my local.conf and then running fc-cache -fv fixed it so the TT fonts are displayed in apps instead of non-aliased ones.
| Code: | <!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir>
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Same problem, you solved it! thanx |
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