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xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Font issues [solved]

I have a problem with some of my fonts...
Mostly the fonts look great.
But sometimes I come across a website where the fonts look ugly.

I use the *-lcd packages and enabled font hinting and smoothing.
The package ttf-ms-fonts is also installed.

Any ideas?

Last edited by xdeusx (2008-02-10 15:29:37)

CuleX

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 107

Re: Font issues [solved]

Oh, i know this problem. That's the Helivetica Font. It's just a bitmap font (I don't know why it's even installed). Try to set it to some other font in ~/.fonts.conf

The best idea is Arial, it's very close to the original Helvetica.

<match target="pattern">
 <test qual="any" name="family">
   <string>Helvetica</string>
 </test>
 <edit name="family" mode="assign">
   <string>Arial</string>
 </edit>
</match>

Last edited by CuleX (2008-02-10 14:34:57)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Font issues [solved]

Bitmap fonts should be disabled, because they look horrible.

    <!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
    <selectfont>
        <rejectfont>
            <pattern>
                <patelt name="scalable">
                    <bool>false</bool>
                </patelt>
            </pattern>
        </rejectfont>
    </selectfont>

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Font issues [solved]

Awesome
Somehow ~/.fonts.conf does not affect my settings, but using local.conf in /etc/fonts/ made it work.
Thank you both for your help!

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Font issues [solved]

does not affect my settings

Oh yes it does. Or should do. See wiki for what the entire file should look like.