Can't use tahoma font

Mushir · 2015-10-30 06:07:27

I have installed infinality-bundle to refine font rendering but now I can't use tahoma font. neither my system nor Firefox can read it although it's installed . tahoma font is replaced by DejaVuSansCondensed which is ugly with Arabic webpages . can anyone tell me what is wrong an walk me through my font settings to solve my problem ?

Last edited by Mushir (2015-10-30 06:08:05)

Sirgnualot · 2015-10-30 22:21:18

Make sure your fonts are in

 ~/.fonts

make sure that you have them unziped in otf format.

Mushir · 2015-10-31 01:19:02

Sirgnualot wrote:

Make sure your fonts are in
 ~/.fonts 
make sure that you have them unziped in otf format.

1- Yes I did that .. some of my fonts are in ~/.fonts but I think butting them in usr/share/fonts will do the same !
2 - Tahoma font is TTF ( true type format ) how to but it in OTF ?!!

TheChickenMan · 2015-10-31 02:06:20

TTF files should work just fine too.

Mushir · 2015-10-31 02:16:22

TheChickenMan wrote:

TTF files should work just fine too.

OK I know that all my TTF font are working ! I think youre missing the point .. my problem is I can't activate Tahoma font whatsoever

Last edited by Mushir (2015-10-31 02:17:12)

mrlamud · 2015-10-31 02:42:27

Either restart or use this command

#fc-cache -fv

, if you're sure you put that font in the right place.

Mushir · 2015-10-31 04:55:17

mrlamud wrote:

Either restart or use this command
#fc-cache -fv
, if you're sure you put that font in the right place.

did that command many times and her is the output :

/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 11 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/OTF: caching, new cache contents: 37 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 209 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 95 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/mushir/.local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/mushir/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/mushir/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/mushir/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

Last edited by Mushir (2015-11-02 03:52:40)

ukhippo · 2015-10-31 07:20:57

Please use code tags when pasting output.

Do the following commands

$ fc-list | grep -i tahoma
$ fc-match tahoma

show your font?
Have you checked the files in /etc/fonts/conf.d are not forcing the override?

Mushir · 2015-10-31 13:21:43

here is the output for first command :

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tahoma.ttf: Tahoma:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tahomabd.ttf: Tahoma:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahomabd.ttf: Tahoma:style=Bold,Félkövér
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahoma.ttf: Tahoma:style=Regular,Normál
/home/mushir/.local/share/fonts/tahomabd.ttf: Tahoma:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,Krepko,đậm,Lodia
/home/mushir/.local/share/fonts/tahoma.ttf: Tahoma:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,thường,Arrunta

and here is the output for the second :

LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans" "Regular"

I'm not sure what do you mean by asking "Have you checked the files in /etc/fonts/conf.d are not forcing the override?"

Last edited by Mushir (2015-11-02 03:54:12)

ukhippo · 2015-10-31 14:19:54

As I said before, please use code tags when pasting output - it's hard to read otherwise.

Regarding my override question, I suggest you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Banton · 2015-10-31 14:24:31

you can change the preset to microsoft font.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality#Usage

Mushir · 2015-10-31 16:33:37

Banton wrote:

you can change the preset to microsoft font.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality#Usage

ok after setting the preset to microsoft font now it uses arial font instead !
here is the outptut of fc-match tahoma :

arial.ttf: "Arial" "Regular"

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Can't use tahoma font

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