Josselin Mouette
2005-Nov-21 08:50 UTC
[Fontconfig] aliasing charter,helvetica,fixed etc to ttf-freefont fonts
(re-sending to the list, my first mail was sent to a moderation queue) Le ven 17/10/2003 ? 17:23, Maarten De Boer a ?crit :> hello, > > i have been trying to do the following whole day, and it''s driving me > crazy :-( > > i am installing debian sarge with sid''s kde 3.1.4, and i want to use > antialiased fonts. i choose to use the ttf-freefont package > "A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS > character set. These fonts are similar to the (in)famous Helvetica, > Times and Courier fonts." > so I don''t have helvetica,charter, and several other fonts. now, kde > out of the box uses helvetica (kdm for example), so i would like to have > this aliased to the freefont equivalent, nimbus sans. some for "fixed" (as > used by konsole), i''d like to have that alias to nimbus mono, or bitstream > vera sans mono. HOW do it do this?? I''ve been playing with local.conf, > running fc-cache -f, but to no avail... PLEASE HELP!Normally fontconfig is configured to do this aliasing automatically, and it works with GTK-based applications. But there is, at least in Debian, a problem with Qt and these aliases. You can have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/209378 where this issue is discussed among other things. Regards, -- .''''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :'' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `'' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e=2E?Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20031017/f10f0ca1/attachment.pgp
Maarten De Boer
2005-Nov-21 08:50 UTC
[Fontconfig] aliasing charter,helvetica,fixed etc to ttf-freefont fonts
hello, i have been trying to do the following whole day, and it''s driving me crazy :-( i am installing debian sarge with sid''s kde 3.1.4, and i want to use antialiased fonts. i choose to use the ttf-freefont package "A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS character set. These fonts are similar to the (in)famous Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts." so I don''t have helvetica,charter, and several other fonts. now, kde out of the box uses helvetica (kdm for example), so i would like to have this aliased to the freefont equivalent, nimbus sans. some for "fixed" (as used by konsole), i''d like to have that alias to nimbus mono, or bitstream vera sans mono. HOW do it do this?? I''ve been playing with local.conf, running fc-cache -f, but to no avail... PLEASE HELP! thanks, maarten
Josselin Mouette
2005-Nov-21 08:50 UTC
[Fontconfig] aliasing charter,helvetica,fixed etc to ttf-freefont fonts
Le ven 17/10/2003 ? 17:23, Maarten De Boer a ?crit :> hello, > > i have been trying to do the following whole day, and it''s driving me > crazy :-( > > i am installing debian sarge with sid''s kde 3.1.4, and i want to use > antialiased fonts. i choose to use the ttf-freefont package > "A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS > character set. These fonts are similar to the (in)famous Helvetica, > Times and Courier fonts." > so I don''t have helvetica,charter, and several other fonts. now, kde > out of the box uses helvetica (kdm for example), so i would like to have > this aliased to the freefont equivalent, nimbus sans. some for "fixed" (as > used by konsole), i''d like to have that alias to nimbus mono, or bitstream > vera sans mono. HOW do it do this?? I''ve been playing with local.conf, > running fc-cache -f, but to no avail... PLEASE HELP!Normally fontconfig is configured to do this aliasing automatically, and it works with GTK-based applications. But there is, at least in Debian, a problem with Qt and these aliases. You can have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/209378 where this issue is discussed among other things. Regards, -- .''''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :'' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `'' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e=2E?Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20031017/65efdb41/attachment.pgp