kde-head Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 The Register looks very blocky in Konqueror (mandrake 10.1 - upgraded from 10.0). The font family being used in their stylesheet is "font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" Here's my font config. I've recompiled and installed freetype with the Apple rendering algorithms switched on. Any pointers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted November 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 (edited) Problem solved. 1. remove the xorg-x11-100dpi and xorg-x11-75dpi packages (they have crappy helvetica and serif fonts) 2. download and install the ms-font rpms from http://webperf.org/msfonts/ urpmi msfonts-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm urpmi msfonts-style-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm 3. edit /etc/fonts/local.cf - add all of your font directories here's mine: <dir>/usr/share/fonts/msfonts</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/msfonts-style</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/ttf</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/freefont</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/Dustismo</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttcorefonts</dir> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> 4. fc-cache -f -v 5. restart your window manager (ctrl+alt+backspace ) Voila! No more crappy fonts when looking at The Register in Konqueror: Note that this problem occured when I upgraded via urpmi from 10.0 official to 10.1 official. Your mileage may vary. Edited November 19, 2004 by kde-head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fearby Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Where are the xorg fonts kept? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fearby Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 (edited) Also found MS webfonts on the NORlug repository: urpmi.addmedia norlug http://mirror.datapipe.net/norlug/mandrake-10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz Edited November 21, 2004 by fearby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 I got the same problem and solved it by merely importing the ms fonts in kde control center>System>Font Installer. No further editing was necessary. It works pretty easy if you have windows installed on another partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted November 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 I got the same problem and solved it by merely importing the ms fonts in kde control center>System>Font Installer. No further editing was necessary. It works pretty easy if you have windows installed on another partition. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> do you import into fonts://personal? i already have msfonts on my system - i downloaded rpms from here: http://webperf.org/msfonts/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeyKlitske Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 my eyes thank thee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 24, 2004 Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 (edited) do you import into fonts://personal? No, I imported as root for system wide installation. I've done it twice now on two different boxes and it works like a charm. I created a subfolder in /usr/local/share/fonts/ttf called MSFonts and imported the ms fonts there. Edited November 25, 2004 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest appu Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 -> 10.1 with fresh install! (I haven't used Mandrake for a long long long time ). Anyway the "usual" method for font import Configure your computer->system->fonts->import is very tedious and has to be done individually for each font unlike in the earlier version, where you could choose all the fonts and it it was imported. In my install of 10.1 the font importer hangs during the checking phase. To get all my windows font from the Windows XP font folder working in this version of Mandrake I copied *.ttf from c:\windows\fonts to /usr/share/fonts/ttf/Windows, then ran Configure your computer->system->fonts. Al the copied fonts showed up. All the fonts were recognized systemwide, and show up in Open Office, Firefox and Konqueror. So far these are the only programs I've cheked them with (too busy updating and trying to get my Nvidia card running stably ). As a bonus it also cured my Firefox font problems. Hoped that helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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