Where's the font fix in 9.1?

[Guest BooYah]

This is a really dumb question.

 

Will a kernel update fix the font problem in 9.0? Or is that in KDE 3.1, some X-serve update, or something else that needs updating.

[tyme]

well, exactly what do you mean "the font problem"?

 

a kernel update won't help your fonts. if you look around, do a search or example (try "font problems", "bad fonts", and the like) you should find a good bit of info as fonts have quite a few topics.

 

i have a post in the "Everything Linux" forum concerning the Xft and Fontconfig files that were missing from texstar, they make fonts appear a lot nicer.

[Guest BooYah]

I was refering to this post http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...6b75df86657970c

 

After reading the review, I found the xft link. I'll also take a look at your post in the other forum, thanks for the heads-up.

 

I spent a lot of time reading about fonts and trying to get them to work. I've got them to work pretty well 90% of the time, but sometimes the fonts are just butt-ugly. I was hoping there'd be a simple update somewhere, because I'm tired of dealing with this.

 

BooYah

[tyme]

fonts have been a problem w/linux for a while.

 

check out this post: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2126

 

it contains a lot of stuff about software for linux, but there is a link for an RPM which will get you the core microsoft fonts.

 

personally, i get all the fontconfig, freetype2, and Xft packages from this link:

http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...e/RPMS.texstar/

 

and install them. for the freetype2 ones you have to do an update (-U option on the command line). add to that the ms fonts i mentioned earlier and i rarely have any ugly fonts.