> A.) Installing fontconfig-git from the AUR. > B.) Install ttf-ms-fonts as already mentioned in this thread. > C.) Do both. And while at it install ttf-carlito and ttf-caladea to replace Calibri and Cambria in all those Office 2007/2010/2013 documents out there. First I'm extremely sorry for taking long time to reply. I've tried all three methods but no success. After I install fontconfig-git all the fonts on chromium browsers tabs and address bar changes to some kind of dots. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:15 PM, "P. A. López-Valencia" <vorbote@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > On 11/12/14 13:44, Sadika Sumanapala wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone using KeePass missing/not showing fonts? There are missing >> fonts in some dialog boxes (file open dialog, font dialog :) >> > > The latest gsfonts package contains fonts with different names to the ones > used previously for almost 15 years. You can blame URW for the changes. But > there are two little known facts: > > 1.) The new gsfonts are new insofar as Ghostscript.com (a.k.a. Artifex) > commissioned and obtained those new and far better made fonts about four > years ago but only managed to place them in a git repository sometime > middle of this passing year. > > 2.) The old fonts used in most linux distros are a piece of c*p butchered > with some incredible amateur cyrillic glyphs by using an early version of > fontforge (which, at the time, was another p.o.s.). No one in his/her right > mind would use those fonts (the reason why TeXLive includes its own private > copy of the original unmodified URW fonts, sad it is the older versions > yet). > > Now, to solving your problem. Fontconfig substitutes the core 35 fonts as > reinterpreted by Microsoft (Times NR, Arial, Symbol MT) with the fonts in > the gsfonts package and presently that is broken. You can fix it by: > > A.) Installing fontconfig-git from the AUR. > > B.) Install ttf-ms-fonts as already mentioned in this thread. > > C.) Do both. And while at it install ttf-carlito and ttf-caladea to > replace Calibri and Cambria in all those Office 2007/2010/2013 documents > out there. > > -- > Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia > http://about.me/palopezv/ > > Every nation gets the government it deserves. -- Joseph de Maistre >
