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fbourigault

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Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 22

Fonts

Hello,

I'm running an up-to-date Arch Linux system and I'm asking the community for setting up my fonts.

I have two problems :

First, fonts I use are not covering large unicode scope. So in wikipedia asian glyphs are not rendered. It's not my main issue since I don't understand those languages but having the real glyphs is better for me.

Secondly, on github, font is badly choosen so the rendering size is wrong and the text go to next line.

I'm using chromium.

Which fonts should I install and which configuration should I use to have better fonts rendering ?

Thanks for help

EDIT : for the github issue, I installed the ttf-liberation package. It's ok for this point.

Last edited by fbourigault (2014-10-24 20:13:22)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Fonts

Install ttf-dejavu and restart your browser.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Vietnamese should provide higher-quality CJK glyphs.

Last edited by karol (2014-10-25 01:38:37)

fbourigault

Member

Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 22

Re: Fonts

I already have ttf-dejavu installed.

pacman -Qsq font output :

cantarell-fonts
fluidsynth
fontconfig
fontsproto
freetype2
gnome-font-viewer
gsfonts
libfontenc
libxfont
libxft
t1lib
ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-dejavu
ttf-liberation
xorg-bdftopcf
xorg-font-util
xorg-font-utils
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-fonts-type1
xorg-mkfontdir
xorg-mkfontscale

Thanks for help

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,489

Re: Fonts

Infinality Bundle may help you with the font rendering.

Last edited by Moo-Crumpus (2014-10-27 14:04:37)

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Fonts

I'm using the stock 32-bit firefox and even w/o ttf-dejavu I can see the CJK glyphs:

$ pacman -Qsq font
fontconfig-infinality-ultimate
fontsproto
freetype2-infinality-ultimate
ftgl
libfontenc
libxfont
libxft
t1lib
xorg-bdftopcf
xorg-font-util
xorg-font-utils
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-mkfontdir
xorg-mkfontscale

I'm using infinality-patched packages though:

$ pacman -Qsq infinality
cairo-infinality-ultimate
fontconfig-infinality-ultimate
freetype2-infinality-ultimate

fbourigault

Member

Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 22

Re: Fonts

After a look at what are fonts installed under ubuntu, I installed ttf-droid, ttf-freefont, ttf-tibetan-machine, ttf-tlwg, wqy-microhei, wqy-microhei-lite, ttf-symbola, ttf-indic-otf and ttf-ubuntu-font-family.

Installing those packages solved my problem without installing infinality packages. Hope this will help other Arch users