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