Trouble using truetype fonts on FC2

[Andre Costa]

Replying to my own msg, just to confirm that the problem happens only
with GTK 1.x apps. Still searching for some clue...

TIA

Andre

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:32:49 -0300
Andre Costa <acosta at ar.microlink.com.br> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently upgraded FC1 to FC2 (woo-hoo! =)), and all seems to be
> going well -- except for TTF support.
> 
> I have gone through the instructions here
> [http://www.rockhopper.dk/linux/software/fonts-in-xfree.html], but I
> can't seem to be able to enable Windows TTF. The very same procedure
> works flawlessly on FC1.
> 
> All steps seem to succeed, all proper files seem to be on the right
> place etc. 'xlsfonts' lists windows fonts without complaints. However,
> fonts appear ugly, as you can see by these screenshots from Sylpheed:
> 
> http://gwpr03.microlink.com.br/~acosta/Sylpheed-FC1.png
> http://gwpr03.microlink.com.br/~acosta/Sylpheed-FC2.png
> 
> First one is how it looks on FC1 (I took it from my computer at work,
> but it was working like that on my home computer as well). I am using
> Verdana font, and it looks just like it should. Second one shows how
> it is appearing on FC2 -- this font is definitely not Verdana. 
> 
> Sylpheed is configured to use this font on both versions:
> -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
> 
> I am running Xorg at 100x100dpi, using nvidia drivers.
> /etc/X11/fs/config has:
> 
> [...]
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ttf,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Windows,
>         /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
>         /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype
> 
> # in 12 points, decipoints
> default-point-size = 120
> 
> # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
> #default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
> default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75
> [...]
> 
> fonts.scale and fonts.dir have been created on /usr/share/fonts/ttf
> with:
> 
> ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> mkfontdir
> 
> I can't see what's wrong... any specific Xorg procedure I should do?
> Anyone else can confirm successfully enabling MS fonts on FC2? (please
> note: I would like to do it for both GTK 1.x and GTK2).
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andre
> 
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> Andre Oliveira da Costa
> 
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Andre Oliveira da Costa