In the past decade, enabling bitmap is as easy as linking 70-force-bitmaps.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.d while removing any references to 70-no-bitmaps.conf Since 18.04 however, this would not give the user all bitmap fonts. The only fonts that appear in fc-cache(1) with this technique are Fixed, Unifont, Wqy (bitmap song). All of the typical ones like Helvetica, Times, Lucida would not show up. Not sure if this is a font-config issue or my Ubuntu 18.04. I surely did both `sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig` per Ubuntu requirement and `sudo fc-cache -f -v` per font-config requirement. I also suspected the location of the font files, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, isn't indexed by font-config. Coincidently, all the missing fonts like Times, Helvetica and Lucida are in this director. I tried to eliminate this probable cause by copying the files to ~/.fonts and saw no change to fc-list(1). Since Fixed, Unifont, Wqy-Bitmap are all typical fonts used in a terminal emulator and "Helvetica, Times, Lucida" all do not fit terminal emulators, there seem to be a second probable cause: an artificial bias towards not allowing bitmaps in places other than terminals. Thanks a lot for advices. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
