Thelma
On 03/07/2017 10:12 AM, David W Noon wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:41:06 -0700, Thelma ([email protected]) wrote
> about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
> <[email protected]>):
>
> [snip]
>> I've emerge htmldoc copied their fonts to /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
>> unmerged htmldoc
>> run: fc-cache -fv
>>
>> But the fonts in "flpsed" are still same looking (not impressive).
>>
>> I've the following fonts installed:
>> ll /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31741 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica.afm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31586 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.afm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31896 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77039 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfa
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70803 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.pfa
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar 6 13:04 'Helvetica Neu Bold.ttf'
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueBd.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38016 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue BlackCond.ttf'
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39568 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueHv.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43148 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueIt.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Light.ttf'
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueLt.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Medium.ttf'
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueMed.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40144 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Thin.ttf'
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41180 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeue.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32044 Mar 6 13:56 helvetica-normal-58bdcca3a92e8.ttf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32097 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.afm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75595 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.pfa
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70952 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica.pfa
>>
>> So I don't know what fonts it is looking for.
>
> You have a bunch of TrueType fonts in that list. Helvetica is not a
> TrueType font, but an Adobe Postscript font. The nearest TrueType font
> to Helvetica is probably Arial. However, flpsed is definitely looking
> for Helvetica, not Arial.
>
> I would start by deleting the *.ttf files in that directory (or move
> them elsewhere) and refreshing the font cache again.
I removed them.
I have bunch of font helvetica:
find /usr/share/fonts/ -iname helv*
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR08-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvO14-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB24-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR14-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR10-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
...
So which group do they belong to?
eselect fontconfig list
Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
[1] 10-autohint.conf
[2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
[3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
[4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
[5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
[6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
[7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
[8] 10-unhinted.conf
[9] 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
[10] 11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
[11] 11-lcdfilter-light.conf
[12] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
[13] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[14] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
[15] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
[16] 25-ttf-arphic-ukai-render.conf
[17] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-bitmaps.conf
[18] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf
[19] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
[20] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
[21] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
[22] 35-ttf-arphic-ukai-aliases.conf
[23] 35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf
[24] 40-nonlatin.conf *
[25] 41-ttf-arphic-ukai.conf
[26] 41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
[27] 42-luxi-mono.conf *
[28] 45-latin.conf *
[29] 49-sansserif.conf *
[30] 50-user.conf *
[31] 51-local.conf *
[32] 57-dejavu-sans.conf
[33] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
[34] 57-dejavu-serif.conf
[35] 60-latin.conf *
[36] 60-liberation.conf *
[37] 64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
[38] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
[39] 65-khmer.conf
[40] 65-nonlatin.conf *
[41] 69-unifont.conf *
[42] 70-no-bitmaps.conf
[43] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
[44] 75-ttf-arphic-ukai-select.conf
[45] 75-yes-terminus.conf
[46] 80-delicious.conf *
[47] 90-synthetic.conf *
[48] 90-ttf-arphic-ukai-embolden.conf
[49] 90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf
[50] 99pdftoopvp.conf
I don't see anything starting with "helv"
Maybe they are not enabled in my system?
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Thelma
