On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts > > > and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the > > > default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the > > > problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is > > > missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? > > > I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change > > > to get them back. Help is appreciated. > > > > Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on > > OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in > > particular that can't see them? > > > > Anne > > Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for > sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I > installed.
How puzzling! I've just checked and there are 4 versions of Helvetica in my fonts list for KMail. In fact it tells me I'm using a customised font (without indicating which one), and I think I set it to Helvetica, though I can't be sure which one. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones > I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have > my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. It's curious how many problems we have that really bug some users and simply don't happen to others. Mind you, I think that similar things happened with 8.2 until it settled down. I guess that eventually we'll come to understand the cause of many of these problems. Anne
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