Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

onguarde · 2009-12-17 20:57:17

Peace all!

The calibri font at point 9 and above is distorted in KDE4. It works fine on point 8 though..

On firefox, it works but some letters are blurry/bold when they aren't suppose to be.

I tried reinstalling the package to no avail. The rest of the fonts seems fine though.

Here's a screenie
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9287/calibrifont9.png

Note the bolden "ttf" letters and invisible rest.

Thanks in advance!

Gen2ly · 2009-12-17 22:47:29

Perhaps it has to do with this??

<!-- calibri jaggedness -->
  <!-- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1045807#post1045807 -->
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap" >
   <bool>false</bool></edit>
 </match>

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-12-17 22:48:27)

onguarde · 2009-12-18 11:11:24

Thanks for the reply!

I tried this from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ht=calibri (Nested link from the site u gave me). And added the following,

<match target="font" >
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

Then, for some weird reason everything works(after a reboot) but this time, antialiasing stops working totally!

I tried removing the above but still it won't change! Am i missing sth?

Here's my .fonts.conf (written by kde4)

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</match>

Gen2ly · 2009-12-18 15:47:40

<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
  <bool>false</bool>

onguarde · 2009-12-21 09:36:18

Ok I even tried using the fonts from my Windows installation. Everything works fine again except for Calibri. Hence, I've decided to scrap it in favour of other fonts. Corbel is fine too..

brebs · 2009-12-21 11:53:18

onguarde wrote:

but this time, antialiasing stops working totally!

Then you need to take a good look at your /etc/fonts/ and ~/.fonts.conf, because something's wrong in there somewhere.

Here's my config. Notice this:

    <!-- To fix Calibri font - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1045807#post1045807 -->
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>

Maybe this is yet another occasion where cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch is needed.

onguarde · 2009-12-22 08:10:38

Ah, was just about to post the same thing.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthrea … ost1045807

Adding that in the .fonts.conf solves all the calibri font problems. I'm puzzled why this works fine before without adding anything. Maybe in kde4.2.

Anyhows, should this "fix" be in the wiki?

thisoldman · 2009-12-22 13:43:16

Anyhows, should this "fix" be in the wiki?

Thanks to *brebs, it has been in the wiki for a while: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … #Example_2

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#1 2009-12-17 20:57:17

Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

#2 2009-12-17 22:47:29

Re: Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

#3 2009-12-18 11:11:24

Re: Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

#4 2009-12-18 15:47:40

Re: Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

#5 2009-12-21 09:36:18

Re: Calibri font (ttf-vista-fonts) Bugged in KDE4

#6 2009-12-21 11:53:18

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#7 2009-12-22 08:10:38

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