Mandrake 9.1 Kde only. kword with Helvetica font setting. The compose window character setting is OK, but in print preview and the actual printed document the character spacing is too close. How to fix ? Later === Could this have anything to do with it ? from : /var/log/messages Dec 23 09:55:26 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded Dec 23 09:55:26 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded Dec 23 09:55:26 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable) <snip> Dec 23 09:55:26 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf (unreadable) <snip> Dec 23 09:55:27 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable) Looks to me like some font setting are not set up correctly ? No idea how to go about it, can anyone help me, John Still Later ====== [root@localhost root]# xset fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 [root@localhost root]# [root@localhost root]# xset fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf xset: bad font path element (#56), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax I cannot understand this, both , /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 and, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf have a /fonts.dir for each, so ? I have set permissions to all users, so what gives ? John Still later2 =======[root@localhost root]# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 [root@localhost Type1]# type1inst type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol (james.macnicol@mailexcite.com) There are a total of 252 PostScript fonts in this directory [10] [20] [30] [40] [50] [60] [70] [80] [90] [100] [110] [120] [130] [140] [150] [160] [170] [180] [190] [200] [210] [220] [230] [240] [250] ------------------------------------------------------- 252 fonts found 252 were standard PostScript fonts I skipped 252 of these fonts because they already had overriding entries in both fonts.scale and/or Fontmap (X Windows fonts or Ghostscript fonts respectively). [root@localhost Type1]# [root@localhost root]# chkfontpath -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 chkfontpath: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 already in list So that seems ok ? and then, [root@localhost root]# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 [root@localhost Type1]# type1inst type1inst Version 0.6.1 (11th February 1998) Copyright (C) 1996-1998 James Macnicol (james.macnicol@mailexcite.com) There are a total of 29 PostScript fonts in this directory [10] [20] ------------------------------------------------------- 29 fonts found 29 were standard PostScript fonts ------------------------------------------------------- For 1 of these I couldn''t figure out which foundry the font is from. Thus, these fonts will appear under the foundry unknown, i.e. X font name -unknown-*. Please consult the README file to see what this means. ------------------------------------------------------- A log of errors is located in the file "type1inst.log" so that is not good, [root@localhost Type1]# chkfontpath -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 chkfontpath: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 already in list [root@localhost Type1]#ls ok, but !!!! /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1type1inst.log Run started at Tue Dec 23 17:44:35 UTC 2003 Reading fonts.scale ....Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "cour.pfa" the line "cour.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "cour.pfa" the line "cour.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "cour.pfa" the line "cour.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "couri.pfa" the line "couri.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "couri.pfa" the line "couri.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "couri.pfa" the line "couri.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courb.pfa" the line "courb.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courb.pfa" the line "courb.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courb.pfa" the line "courb.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courbi.pfa" the line "courbi.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courbi.pfa" the line "courbi.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "courbi.pfa" the line "courbi.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047013t.pfa" the line "l047013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047013t.pfa" the line "l047013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047013t.pfa" the line "l047013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047013t.pfa" the line "l047013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047016t.pfa" the line "l047016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047016t.pfa" the line "l047016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047016t.pfa" the line "l047016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047016t.pfa" the line "l047016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047033t.pfa" the line "l047033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047033t.pfa" the line "l047033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047033t.pfa" the line "l047033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047033t.pfa" the line "l047033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047036t.pfa" the line "l047036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047036t.pfa" the line "l047036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047036t.pfa" the line "l047036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l047036t.pfa" the line "l047036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Mono-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048013t.pfa" the line "l048013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048013t.pfa" the line "l048013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048013t.pfa" the line "l048013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048013t.pfa" the line "l048013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048016t.pfa" the line "l048016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048016t.pfa" the line "l048016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048016t.pfa" the line "l048016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048016t.pfa" the line "l048016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048033t.pfa" the line "l048033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048033t.pfa" the line "l048033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048033t.pfa" the line "l048033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048033t.pfa" the line "l048033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048036t.pfa" the line "l048036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048036t.pfa" the line "l048036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048036t.pfa" the line "l048036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l048036t.pfa" the line "l048036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Sans-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049013t.pfa" the line "l049013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049013t.pfa" the line "l049013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049013t.pfa" the line "l049013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049013t.pfa" the line "l049013t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049016t.pfa" the line "l049016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049016t.pfa" the line "l049016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049016t.pfa" the line "l049016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049016t.pfa" the line "l049016t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049033t.pfa" the line "l049033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049033t.pfa" the line "l049033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049033t.pfa" the line "l049033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049033t.pfa" the line "l049033t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049036t.pfa" the line "l049036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049036t.pfa" the line "l049036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049036t.pfa" the line "l049036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" has been ignored Warning : fonts.scale already contains a line for file "l049036t.pfa" the line "l049036t.pfa -b&h-Luxi Serif-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard" has been ignored Done. Reading Fontmap .... Done. cursor.pfa (Cursor) : foundry not matched /Notice said : "(Copyright (c) 2000 XFree86, Inc.) " Writing fonts.scale.... Done. Writing Fontmap.... Done. I don''t think it liked even one of these fonts. Something wrong here. I recon this is something to do with the problem ????? John