The fonts now are too obscure to see after updating today.
Yu Shao
yshao at redhat.com
Mon Nov 3 00:05:24 UTC 2003
Because of licensing issue of zysong.ttf we had been shipping since
RedHat 7.3, we took it out from version ttfonts-zh_CN-2.13-0 in Fedora.
Regards,
Yu Shao
Mike A. Harris wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, [gb2312] 肇 鑫 wrote:
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>>Greeting everyone.
>>I update the XFree86 to 4.3.0-42 today.
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>Updated from what previous XFree86 release?
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>>I notice that the fonts change a lot now. However, I think they
>>are worse than before.
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>Interesting... considering nothing has changed in XFree86 for
>quite a long time now that might affect fonts.
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>>If you are somebody like me, who choose Chinese as default, you
>>will find the characters become so obscure now. I believe that
>>if this is still existed, fedora should not be released. I use a
>>notebook with 14.1 @ 1024*768. So I try to reset fonts using LCD
>>mode in font setting. But it seems no changes happened.
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>>So please chech-out want is wrong in that.
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>We'll need a lot more information than that to be able to
>investigate anything. Fonts should work no different now than
>they did even a few months ago. There are no new font related
>bugs reported in bugzilla that I can see. If there was a
>widespread problem of ugly fonts all of a sudden, bugzilla would
>probably be quite flooded with bug reports about font problems.
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>I suspect this is just a local font installation issue. If
>you've ever manually installed Asian fonts which supply their own
>fonts.scale and/or fonts.dir files and don't function properly
>with ttmkfdir/mkfontdir generated font metadata files, then this
>is a likely cause of the problem.
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>Can you provide screenshots?
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