Hi,
I just upgraded to qt-3.3.3 and kde-3.3.1 from 3.2 and saw to my horror that most of my fonts were gone. Most notably the helvetica font which i use a lot when reading web pages. In konqueror -> Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Fonts, the font list was filled in automaticly with kde-3.2. With kde-3.3, only the first two font rows are filled in.
I appear to have lost all of the fixed sized fonts and only have the TTF and Type1 fonts left.
I tried adding the missing fonts manually and it worked, but konqueror still wont pick them up automaticly like it did before, and web page rendering is still ugly.
I havent installed any special fonts other than the stuff that ships with xorg, fontconfig, freetype and friends.
Has the qt/kde font handling changed between 3.2 and 3.3?
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
At this point, any RTFM pointers are most welcome. :-)
The pace to start trouble shooting is with FontConfig. Qt uses FontConfig rather than the X font server to access fonts.
Open a Konsole and execute:
fc-list Helvetica
If this doesn't list: Helvetica:style=Oblique Helvetica:style=Bold Helvetica:style=Regular Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
you have problems.
Then check to see if FontConfig is finding the directory for the font.
As root, run:
fc-cache -v
This will list the directories that FontConfig has cached. Check to see that the directory containing Helvetica fonts is listed.
You might try running [as root]:
fc-cache -f
and see if it fixes your problem.
These directories are listed in:
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/fonts/local.conf
It is recommended that you use scalable fonts.
You can get Helvetica in the old Windows Adobe Acrobat Reader:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/3.x/ar302.exe
You have to extract this file with WINE or Windows.
Get the ATM files here:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/900-960/950/
Convert all file names to lower case and install in the usual manner.
Or, if you don't want to do that, it might be better to use URW Nimbus Sans L (the free clone of Helvetica) which should be on your system if you installed from a distro. You can check for this with:
fc-list "Nimbus Sans L"
Always use the quotes if the name has spaces in it.
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