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pillz

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Registered: 2009-08-20

Posts: 58

Font's displaying incorrectly

My fonts (specifically Bitstream Vera) are displaying incorrectly.  The problem also seems to affect DejaVu and possibly a few others.  Here is an example:

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4184/conkyfontst.jpg

That is a picture comparing an old screenshot (the left) to a new screen shot (the right).  I had to re-install Arch (X update left me with a totally broken xserver, I needed to use the computer and I couldn't fix it, so I reformatted to Zenwalk until I had time yesterday to reinstall Arch) so the two pictures are taken from different installs.  Both have the same .conkyrc which is using Bitstream Vera Sans.

As you can see, the differences are visible in the "S" "y" "m" and ",".

Here are the font packages I have installed:

local/artwiz-fonts 1.3-4
    This is set of (improved) artwiz fonts.
local/fontsproto 2.1.0-1
    X11 font extension wire protocol
local/gsfonts 8.11-5
    Ghostscript standard Type1 fonts
local/lxappearance 0.2-3 (lxde)
    GTK+ theme switcher of the LXDE Desktop (manages icons and fonts)
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-6
    Bitstream vera fonts
local/ttf-dejavu 2.30-1
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of
    characters
local/ttf-freefont 20090104-2
    A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS character set
local/ttf-liberation 1.04-1
    Red Hats Liberation fonts
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-2
    Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)
    X.org 100dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)
    X.org 75dpi fonts
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-1
    X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.3-1
    X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-4
    X.org misc fonts

I'm not sure what the problem is.  I did transfer over my old ./fonts and ./fontconfig from my last install to this one, so maybe that caused the problem?

MadTux

Member

Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Font's displaying incorrectly

Some information on your hardware, graphics card and what drivers you use would be helpful. There are numerous posts in the forum about problems with X, fonts, etc. Often, the problems are related to the new X, KMS, proprietary graphics drivers or a combination. Zenwalk probably uses older version and thats the reason why it currently works for you.

pillz

Member

Registered: 2009-08-20

Posts: 58

Re: Font's displaying incorrectly

Intel 82865G chipset.
xorg-server 1.7.1.901-1
xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1

To clarify, I am talking about only arch.  Zenwalk was a 3-day affair.  The screenshot shows Arch last week and Arch this week, which are different installs.

thisoldman

Member

From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Font's displaying incorrectly

Are you sure the two fonts are using the same point size?  Hinting will change with point size.

Do you have a backup of your older '/etc/fonts/conf.d/'?  Something could have changed there.

To me, the right-hand image's glyphs look closer to the glyphs I see for Bitstream Vera using Fontforge.

mango123

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From: Moscow, RU

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 19

Website

Re: Font's displaying incorrectly

Change dpi in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 134

134 -  examplas

pillz

Member

Registered: 2009-08-20

Posts: 58

Re: Font's displaying incorrectly

I've set the DPI to 96 in SLiM (wiki says to set it in SLiM if you use it), no change.  What are other good DPI options?  Ive got a 1440x900 resolution monitor.