On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: >> >>> Where does KDE get its' font listing from? How can I determine if Helvetica >>> is actually gone, or just missing from the list? Whether the former or the >>> latter, how do I get it back? What package is it part of? >> >>Did you enable anti-aliasing in KDE? Is helvetica not the only font >>you're missing? >> >>I noticed that with anti-aliasing turned on, I lose a lot of fonts in >>KDE, including helvetica and misc-fixed, which are the two I use in >>KDE's config. >> >>I haven't had time to solve that issue yet, so for now I'm just using >>KDE without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart >>KDE, and see if you get the normal list of fonts back. (Or maybe >>someone else has an actual solution? That would be nice.) > >With AA turned on, KDE will ignore all bitmap fonts as they can't be >AA'd.
Quick followup: it seems like it's actually QT which discards bitmap fonts. At least I'm observing the same effect under Opera's font settings. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
