I recently upgraded to kde-3.2.2. since it needs qt-3.3 (at least here on
Slackware) I upgraded that, too.
After that I noticed qt doesn't support bitmap fonts anymore. This is seriously bad since TTF fonts in konsole suck royally, to give one
example (I like helvetica for taskbar, menu and the like, too).
Back to 3.2.1. I'm annoyed as hell.
You must have some configure issue for the Konsole fonts since it works for me.
Is it all sizes of the Konsole fonts that don't work, or just: "Large"?
Or are you using the: "Linux" console font.
KDE installs three bitmapped fonts:
9x15.pcf.gz console8x16.pcf.gz console8x8.pcf.gz
FontConfig needs to be able to find these fonts for them to work in Konsole. So, to debug this you need to determine where these fonts were installed which should be "$KDEDIR/share/fonts/". Then as root, open a Konsole and execute:
fc-cache -vf
and make sure that that directory is listed and that the fonts are cached. E.G.:
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 3 fonts, 5 dirs
if $KDEDIR is "/usr".
There are font NAME bugs in Qt so I would guess that that rather than the fonts being bitmapped is the problem.
If you like Helvetica, I suggest that you install Type1 Helvetica:
You can install the Type1 fonts that come with AAR 3.x.
Download the M$-Windows version:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/3.x/ar302.exe
You should be able to unpack this with WINE.
You want these files:
COBO____.PFB HVBO____.PFB TII_____.PFB SY______.PFB COB_____.PFB HVB_____.PFB TIR_____.PFB ZD______.PFB COM_____.PFB HVO_____.PFB TIBI____.PFB COO_____.PFB HV______.PFB TIB_____.PFB
You need to change the names to all lower case.
Use KReName.
The file: "ar302.exe" is not a M$ archive file and: "unzip" won't unpack it.
But, if you can't get it unpacked/installed with WINE, you can probably download the same fonts from various sites.
Look for them with Google. Search for the file names for Helvetica or Times.
Be sure to get the correct language encoding.
After changing the names to lower case, copy the files to the directory:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
Then you need the AFM files.
Get these from Adobe:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/900-960/950/
Get the ones that correspond to the PFB files.
After changing the names to lower case, copy the files to the directory:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
and install the fonts if you want them available for old style X applications. FontConfig should automatically cache them.
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