On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:49:48PM +0000, Viv Kendon wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Robert Wyatt wrote: > > >Clemence Magnien wrote: > >>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:30:49PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: > >> > >>>A message today about messed up fonts in X11 prompted me to do an > >>>experiment. > >>> > >>>The original poster reported that his font display was improved by > >>>renaming the .fonts/ directory that was in his home directory. I tried > >>>renaming it, then launching X11. I could see no difference. So, I quit > >>>X11, then moved the directory back to .fonts. I started X11, and now I > >>>have bold fonts in Mozilla and Firefox. I tried several different > >>>fonts, and the bold worked for all of them, but I did not do an > >>>exhaustive test. However I am quite certain that some fonts that would > >>>not display in bold now work properly. YMMV. > >>> > >>>Kevin Horton > >> > >> > It isn't a permissions issue, it really is the contents of > the .fonts dir that do the trick. I have gotten it to work > on two different macs. On the second mac I didn't have a > .fonts dir so I created an empty one. That made no > difference. So I copied over the one from the other mac, > and it worked. > > This is a few lines of what is in there: > > 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 viv staff 38 Feb 6 00:18 > Papyrus.ttf -> /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/Papyrus.ttf > 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 viv staff 42 Feb 6 00:18 > SkiaRegular.ttf -> > /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/SkiaRegular.ttf > 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 viv staff 37 Feb 6 00:18 > Symbol.ttf -> /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/Symbol.ttf > 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 viv staff 40 Feb 6 00:18 > TimesBold.ttf -> /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/TimesBold.ttf > > (and many more, about 76 in total don't want to clog up the > list). The symlinks on the original mac are at least as old > as 7 May 2004. That may be the date I installed 10.3, or it > may be the date my home dir moved to a new network disk, I > can't remember. > > When I started X after adding this dir to the second mac it > took a little longer than usual, and the .fonts.chache-1 > has grown a bit larger. When I then started > mozilla it definitely took a lot longer than usual. What it > was doing is adding those fonts to its font list (the one > you find when you go to the font area of preferences and use > the picking list to change one of them). Only, it did > already have all of them listed, so now it has them listed > twice! Actually, I think .fonts.cache-1 has the fonts > listed twice now too... >
This works for me too! :) (but not for all fonts) I created a .fonts dir and populated it with symlinks using: $ mkdir .fonts $ for i in /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/*; do ln -s $i . ; done This has created 128 links. I didn't even have to relaunch X11, I just quit mozilla and started it again. It took a very long time to launch, compared to usual, and now some fonts, but not all, display bold correctly. I didn't do an extensive check, but I can say that Courier New and Helevetica Neue work, while Helvetica and Times New Roman don't. I can't see any relation between the fonts that work and not and the content of my .fonts directory. If anyone is interested, I can do an extensive check to see which fonts work and which don't. A huge thanks to everybody who helped solve this! Cheers, Clemence ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
