On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Clemence Magnien wrote:
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 tried this on my TiBook (that didn't originally have a .fonts dir). After creating and populating a new .fonts dir as above (I got about 172 symlinks), I also quit X11, removed ~/.fonts.cache-1, and restarted X11. I then waited a few minutes until a new .fonts.cache-1 appeared (it takes a while, wait for disk noise to stop). THEN I launched mozilla...this time it didn't take long to launch, but it has picked up the new fonts with no obvious duplicates.
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 wonder if X11 was updating .fonts.cache-1 during that time?
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.
Helvetica gives bold for me, TimesNewRoman does not...
I can't see any relation between the fonts that work and not and the content of my .fonts directory.
...for me it does correlate with whether there is a Bold variant symlink in .fonts -- Hei and TimesNewRoman have only one symlink each, those showing bold have more.
A huge thanks to everybody who helped solve this!
I'm not sure this counts as "solved", but it seems to be a viable workaround until someone else figures out what ought to be going on and makes it happen "automagically".
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