Font Hints in Arch

Is there an equilavent of Debian's deforma in Arch? I can't get my fonts to look the way I want them - is there any way to configure font hints ?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
There's no 'automatic' tool to configure fonts / font hinting. Check out the above link for a good start, and also check out some of the font threads on the forum here.

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Infinality-bundle-fonts: a free multilingual font collection for Arch

infinality-bundle-fonts: a free multilingual font collection for Arch Linux
infinality-bundle-fonts is meant to be a complete, 'install-and-forget' solution for most (Arch) Linux users looking for easy access to common type-faces diversity needed to create and reproduce (hyper)text documents. It consists of freely available, hand-picked fonts providing correct, uniform and high quality rendering of multilingual content.
Obligatory teaser
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Installation instructions
See Infinality-bundle+fonts.
Technical information and user notes
Popular proprietary fonts substitutions
See /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality/free/37-repl-global-free.conf.
Default sans-serif, serif, monospace, fantasy, cursive
See /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality/free/60-latin-free.conf.
Languages covered and special cases
Wikipedia was used as a reference when testing Latin and non-Latin linguistic scenarios and I believe that the majority of users should be satisfied with the results (the completeness, rendering quality, readability, clarity, coherence… you name it).
If in doubt, you can easily check which font family is used to display a particular script:
[~] $ fc-match :lang=ja
sawarabi-gothic-medium.ttf: "Sawarabi Gothic" "Medium"
Before you install a third-party font package, first check if it is already present in the infinality-bundle-fonts repository.
The default sans family is Noto Sans. However, in order to preserve the correct layout of certain web documents, Liberation Sans will remain the replacement for Arial. The width difference between the two could be problematic for certain websites prioritizing Arial/Helvetica over 'anything sans' (rather than 'anything serif'). Websites intentionally designed to use any sans font will select Noto Sans by default.
There is an extensive choice of available serif type-faces: the default is Heuristica, others include Crimson Text, Merriweather, TeX Gyre Termes, Gentium family, and more.
A few popular font packages available in the Arch Linux official repositories were re-packed in order to avoid rendering issues.
A few packages available in the AUR were re-packed for compatibility reasons.
You will be notified if a package you already have in your system should be replaced with a corresponding one from the infinality-bundle-fonts repository. If this is the case, just hit 'Y' to accept and install the new one.
Additional font files can be found in infinality-bundle-fonts-extra group. Some may be handy extensions for particular scripts (like 'ttf-dejavusans-yunati-*-ibx'), others are strictly optional and task specific. The 'extra' group is expected to offer those few quality bits that users most often need to use but that do not belong to the main set. Suggestions are welcome. Note: 'extra' is not a place for 10 mono / sans / decorative type-faces, etc. This is technically impossible due to server bandwidth limits and practically against the usability principle that a well organized general purpose font collection should offer.
Licensing
The files available in the infinality-bundle-fonts repository are freely available for download, redistribution, personal and/or commercial use. 95% of the fonts are licensed under the GPL, Apache or OFL license. The remaining 5% can still be freely distributed and used under certain conditions specified by the author and/or the foundry. Please, consult a particular license for details if a proper license matters to you.
Sources and build scripts
All source files are available in the usual place:
PKGBUILD
Enjoy.
Last edited by bohoomil (2013-12-04 23:29:11)

bohoomil wrote:
Thanks -- I will re-build and re-upload the package in a minute.
Edit: OK, done. ttf-chromeos-fonts has to be in conflicts=() because it provides exactly the same content as ttf-chromeos-ib. ttf-chromeos-extra-fonts was removed.
I say AND: conjuntion that mean both in this case conflict=('ttf-chromeos-fonts' 'ttf-chromes-extra-fonts')
before
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
now
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arimo-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Cousine-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-chromeos-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Tinos-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-lohit-oriya-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Lohit-Oriya.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-lohit-punjabi-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Lohit-Punjabi.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansArmenian-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansArmenian-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansDevanagari-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansDevanagariUI-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansDevanagariUI-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansEthiopic-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansEthiopic-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansGeorgian-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansGeorgian-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansHebrew-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansHebrew-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansTamil-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansTamil-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansTamilUI-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansTamilUI-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansThai-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansThai-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansThaiUI-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSansThaiUI-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerif-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerif-BoldItalic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerif-Italic.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerif-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifArmenian-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifGeorgian-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifGeorgian-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifThai-Bold.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos
ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/NotoSerifThai-Regular.ttf existe en el sistema de archivos

Font Hinting, Antialiasing, etc vs Desktop Environments

I wonder if any of the presets for font hinting, antialiasing and subpixel rendering apply to a desktop environment (like GNOME, KDE SC or Cinnamon). I've enabled all 3 of them and I just can't see a difference.
The only one that seem to make a difference (with Cinnamon at least) is LCD filtering.
The wiki page on Font Configuration does mention something about desktop environments but I'm not sure I understand. Cinnamon has its own configuration settings for font hinting, antialiasing and subpixel rendering (and from what I can remember GNOME too) but if memory serves when I installed the Infinality patches I clearly saw a difference with the font rendering afterwards, so why the Infinality patches work and not the more basic built-in stuff.
Thanks in advance...

I explored this some time ago and one issue I had was that I had to reset the font cache to see the changes.

Font differences between Arch and Fedora (Hyperworks)

Anyone in Arch land running Altair Hyperworks? I know that it is supported only on Red Hat Enterprise or SUSE Enterprise, but I believe that it will run on Fedora as well, so I thought I'd give it a whirl on Arch. It seems to have an issue with missing (or not finding) fonts. As far as I can tell, I have all the same fonts on my Arch install as I did in Fedora. I'm guessing that this is due to differences in the way the font folders are laid out between Arch and Fedora. Anyone got any suggestions before I go randomly poking around in /usr/share/fonts?

Sorry for bringing back old post.
But have you or anyone had any suggestions to run Altair Hyperworks on Arch?

Lxappearance and font-hinting

Hi archers,
I was trying to use lxappearance to change the font hinting settings. But, every time I open it again, it shows "Full" hinting style.
Also, I noticed that lxappearance is creating two files: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. As far as I can tell, the settings in there are correct after saving them with lxappearance.
Is lxappearance reading the settings from another place than it's writing to?
Am I missing any font configuration file? Is this even the right way to turn off font-hinting? (Or rather set it to "slight").
edit: maybe I should add, I am using awesome WM.
Thanks.
Last edited by loltill (2013-07-16 22:44:34)

I explored this some time ago and one issue I had was that I had to reset the font cache to see the changes.

Conky font differences under Arch compared to Ubuntu [SOLVED]

I'm using the same basic .conkyrc when I'm booted into Arch as I do when I'm booted Ubuntu. For some reason, the one under Ubuntu looks different font-wise. In the screenshot below, Arch has the light blue background while Ubuntu has the slate colored one. Anyone know what might be causing this?
Here is the first part of the ~/.conkyrc
background no
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
out_to_console no
# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
#own_window_transparent no
#own_window_colour hotpink
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8
on_bottom yes
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
#own_window no
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 250 5
maximum_width 258
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 10
# border margins
border_margin 4
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 12
gap_y 37
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
EDIT: the solution to this problem is described in post #12.
Last edited by graysky (2009-04-25 14:32:59)

Ashren wrote:Please check the output of "xdpyinfo | grep dots" it usually should be 96x96 dpi. My bet is that your dpi is wrong. If you're in KDE/Gnome you set the dpi in the DE. If you're using something else one solution is to add "xrandr --screen 0 --dpi 96x96" to your .xinitrc.
Here is the output:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 90x88 dots per inch
I'm using Gnome but can't seem to locate a section to change my dpi. I'm using the nvidia driver (8800GS) but didn't see an area under nvidia-settings to change it either. I tried that xrandr line you proposed, upon restarting gdm, the setting didn't take:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 90x88 dots per inch
Here is my ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
exec gnome-session
xrandr --screen 0 --dpi 96x96
Thanks!
Last edited by graysky (2009-04-23 18:37:22)

[SOLVED] Qt 4.7 - 4.8 and bad fonts hinting.

Hi, since the upgrade to qt 4.8, font rendering of qt applications seems very bad to me.
Before the upgrade, firefox and konqueror looked the same, here is now,
I tried in graphicssystem native and raster:
http://ompldr.org/vYnZ2Mw/firefox1.png
http://ompldr.org/vYnZ2NQ/konqueror_native1.png
http://ompldr.org/vYnZ2NA/firefox2.png
http://ompldr.org/vYnZ2Nw/konqueror_raster.png
http://ompldr.org/vYnZ2Ng/konqueror_native2.png
I tried autohinter too, but gtk apps (cairo) seems always better, what happened?
My .fonts.conf:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="family">
<string>Segoe UI</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Last edited by kokoko3k (2011-12-30 14:16:23)

I casually managed to solve this issue by playing with fontconfig settings.
I'm really not sure if this is the correct way, but now i've the same font rendering i've had before qt 4.8 with hintstyle=hintslight.
My Steps are:
yaourt -S freetype2-infinality
* do not install fontconfig-infinality
edit ~/.fonts.conf as follows
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
the trick seems:hinting+autohint+hintfull=hintslight (!?)
edit /etc/profile.d/infinality-settings.sh and add/replace with those values:
SET_XFT_SETTINGS=true
XFT_SETTINGS="
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.autohint: 1
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOFIT_FORCE_SLIGHT_HINTING=true
export INFINALITY_FT_FILTER_PARAMS="06 25 44 25 06"
export INFINALITY_FT_GRAYSCALE_FILTER_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_GAMMA_CORRECTION="0 100"
export INFINALITY_FT_BRIGHTNESS="0"
export INFINALITY_FT_CONTRAST="0"
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOHINT_INCREASE_GLYPH_HEIGHTS=false
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOHINT_HORIZONTAL_STEM_DARKEN_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOHINT_VERTICAL_STEM_DARKEN_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOHINT_SNAP_STEM_HEIGHT=0
export INFINALITY_FT_FRINGE_FILTER_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_WINDOWS_STYLE_SHARPENING_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_CHROMEOS_STYLE_SHARPENING_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_STEM_ALIGNMENT_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_STEM_FITTING_STRENGTH=0
export INFINALITY_FT_STEM_SNAPPING_SLIDING_SCALE=0
export INFINALITY_FT_USE_VARIOUS_TWEAKS=true
export INFINALITY_FT_USE_KNOWN_SETTINGS_ON_SELECTED_FONTS=false
export INFINALITY_FT_GLOBAL_EMBOLDEN_X_VALUE=0
export INFINALITY_FT_GLOBAL_EMBOLDEN_Y_VALUE=0
export INFINALITY_FT_BOLD_EMBOLDEN_X_VALUE=0
export INFINALITY_FT_BOLD_EMBOLDEN_Y_VALUE=0
Now logout/login.
Starting from there, you can further tweak infinality
Ah, openoffice also looks good out of the box, no need to install extra '*uglyfix*' packages
...and chromium still sucks like nothing happened.
-EDIT-
Remember to not change the hintstyle, leave it to hintfull.
Last edited by kokoko3k (2011-12-30 14:19:40)

KDE4 ignores font hinting settings [solved: qt bug, fixed in 4.5]

Full hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:
Slight hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:
KDE seems to ignore the hinting settings. It's present in ~/.fonts.conf, also Qt3 apps work fine.
I would like to use slight hinting everywhere, but KDE4 defaults to full hinting anyway
Google wasn't very helpful on this issue, and I found no mention of it in the KDE bugzilla.
Last edited by eWoud (2008-10-05 10:34:21)

Edit2: Oops, ignore my patch - it doesn't work. Qt4 doesn't even use cairo.
Last edited by brebs (2008-10-10 02:24:04)

[SOLVED] How to turn on font hinting and font anti-aliasing?

I wanted to configure hinting and anti-aliasing, although I've never used fontconfig before.
I had been reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration and I have found some contradictions.
First it says "Configuration can be done globally through /etc/fonts/fonts.conf" and then immidiatelly after that it says "This file is replaced during fontconfig updates and shouldn't be edited".
Then it says per-user path ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated in turn for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf with no indication where should this "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" actually be.
I get that I am supposed to put my custom XML "somewhere":
<match target="font">
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
But I have no idea where?
Last edited by choosegoose (2015-02-02 23:22:56)

Normally the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable points to .config in your /home/<user> directory.
So the path that you would use would be: /home/<user>/.config/fontconfig
Please note that it's DOT config.
HTH

Bin32-firefox font hinting not working, other bin32 apps look fine

I need bin32-firefox (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18644) for development and Citrix (I'm aware of the nswrapperplugin for 64bit Firefox- this doesn't work very well for me). Anyway, fonts look rough and jagged, like the hinting isn't being applied. Strangely, it works just fine with bin32-skype, Amazon MP3, Acroread, etc.
Any ideas on why this may be occurring and where I should look? I have tried switching to a new profile with the same results (didn't think this would work- but it is a strange problem).
I'm currently using the latest Ubuntu LCD packages (both native 64 and 32 bit). I'll post a screen shot when I'm at home later today in case what I'm saying needs a picture :)
Thank you in advance for any ideas or solutions,
Last edited by jskier (2009-12-22 12:17:43)

bangkok_manouel wrote:I guess the only option you have is to build Firefox from source. So that means you'll need to chroot in a 32-bit install anyway so you can drop the bin32-* "mess". I guess you're aware about this but just in case you're not, IIRC there's a nice wiki article on how to do that. Found it: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … bit_system
Indeed aware of that; when I came to the fork in the road I took the road more traveled
I'll probably just use my Windows XP vbox session for the time being since I prefer bin32 and it works for 95% of everything else

Font hinting weirdness

I'm trying to give up a lot of the GNOME dependencies since I hardly use them anymore (all the default applications have long since been replaced in my day-to-day activities), but when I remove the line in my Openbox autostart.sh instructing it to start the GNOME settings daemon, my fonts lose the hinting properties which I prefer. GNOME should not be controlling my fonts as I have a ~/.fonts.conf file that overrides the GNOME settings; if I give them different values those in the config file are used. But with GNOME settings removed, all of my settings seem to be ignored. Nothing else seems to behave oddly, but I don't use any GNOME applications on a regular basis, so I probably don't notice.
Does anyone know how to override this?

I explored this some time ago and one issue I had was that I had to reset the font cache to see the changes.

[solved] Wrong display of fonts (all square boxes now)

Hi!
I tried Infinality (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Infinality) for font-hinting a few days / weeks ago. Everything worked fine until I recently did - like every day - a
pacman -Syu
since that update my Fonts are all Squares now. Only the real standard fonts (e.g. Bitstream Vera Sans) are displayed correctly now.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us also tried already a
# pacman -S --asdeps freetype2 libxft cairo fontconfig
and I refreshed my font cache via
$ fc-cache -vf
I even followed the described command
pango-querymodules > '/etc/pango/pango.modules'
in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51316.
But none of the above mentioned worked. Would someone please be so kind and help me out?
UPDATE: Meanwhile I tried a
# pacman -Rscn gnome
and reinstalled gnome & gnome-extra. But this doesn't work either, fonts like 'Verdana' aren't displayed correctly.
UPDATE 2: After deleting my manual installed Windows 7 fonts and reloading the cache everything works fine now. I don't know why, but it works
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hacosta wrote:I highly doubt reinstalling gnome would actually do anything, since blackbox is not affected, have you tried just choosing another font in gnome's font thing
I fixed this by uninstalling gnome, all config files for pkg's removed, their dependencies, and all packages that depend on those - with the following command
pacman -Rscn gnome
This removed A LOT of packages. Then I had to reinstall gnome and my fonts were once again readable.
Before anyone tells me how stupid I was for doing that, or how there may have been a simpler theoritical solution - realize that I use my computer for work daily. I had made a few posts and wasn't getting the help I needed so I had to figure something out. I tried removing gnome and all it's packages without the '-n' option (config files), but that didn't work. So I reloaded gnome, then retried with the '-n' option and that did work.
I googled this and apparently many other people had this problem with gnome (not Arch-specific), but nobody gave any workable solutions to any of them either. Hopefully someone smarter than me can comment on the true cause of this, and maybe deduce a better solution - as I am sure some other poor sap will run into the same problem and surely come across this thread.
I appreciate everyone's input on this, and hopefully someone will chime in here with a much simpler solution that wont cause as much trouble as it did for me.
cheers.

Need help setting up xrdp server on my Arch

Hey,
I want to set up an XRDP/VNC server on my personal computer which is running the latest Arch linux (X64).
I wanted to use xrdp as I am going to connect to my computer from a windows based OS (work).
I want to be able to do so using microsoft's RDP program (mstsc) as I am unable to install any software I like, it's a laptop from work.
So far I have downloaded and installed XRDP from AUR and installed the tightvnc as it was a dependency.
Right now I am kind of clueless about what to do/config/etc..
Help will be appreciated.
Thanks !

From one newb to another, I can give the process I took to get it running. First and foremost, uninstall xrdp from the AUR, I could not get it to work no matter what I tried
Next you will need to make sure xvnc is working properly, this can be done by:
Xvnc :1
More then likely you will get several font errors, as Xvnc is looking for its fonts in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory, and Arch deposits that in the /usr/share/fonts directory. So to fix this we do:
ln -s /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
now try the Xvnc command above, it should work properly this time (might be a font error or two but the server is running).
So now that we have Xvnc running properly, lets go to sourceforge and gank the latest xrdp tar ball... http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/
I used the standard install (generic linux install) with "tar zxvf" then "make" and then "make install"
If you are using KDE, you should be all set, if another WM, then search through the forums (Ubuntu had several hits on xrdp and are Gnome specific) as I would more then likely steer you in the wrong direction.
Next we need to remove the lock on Xvnc :0 so it can restart (or you can restart your system if it makes you feel better), its in the /tmp/ as .X10-lock
then run the following command to startup xrdp:
/usr/local/xrdp/xrdp_control.sh start
I hope this helps, if not completely, at least in the proper direction. As I mentioned, there is a lot of info in the Ubuntu forums on xrdp, some of it is helpful, other is meh

Font in qt 4.5 cause eye-strain.

Hello,
I noticed that the font in QT applications look very different. They seem to ignore the hinting set in the GNOME Appearance utility. Here is a screenshot to compare the the two. Notice how the fonts in the QT4 application look very green/red. Also, the fonts are more pixelated.
Link to screenshot (Warning : WSXGA+ Resolution Image) : http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5605/fontk.png
So how is font hinting tuned in QT applications. There is nothing realting to such thing in the fonts tab of qtconfig.
Thanks

killajoe wrote:
your fonts in qt are wonderfull! believe me look at mine:
http://kamprad.net/killajoe/img/qt4-qt3.png
left qtconfig right qt3config...
You have by chance enabled subpixel rendering? There were several thread already about this rendering problem.

Can fonts in a PDF be converted to outlines with Acrobat Pro 9?

Acrobat Pro 9.....Sometimes I get a PDF that I will have to do some edits to. Because I dont have some of the fonts used, I cant edit the file without losing the fonts used. Is there a way to have Acrobat maybe resave itself with all the fonts converted to outlines so this wont be a problem along with any othe font errors I may get?

Converting fonts to outlines is frowned upon do to the loss of font hinting, loss of editability, and inherant fattening of the font.
In your seat, you have to do what has to be done.
http://indesignsecrets.com/converting-text-to-outlines-the-right-way-updated.php
I may have read that this hack is not working in CS5 or 5.5
Place the pdf into InDesign. Create a box or small stroke on the page, in the case of non native ID elements (this pdf) the object needs to touch/overlap the pdf. Color the object, perhaps .1% black, apply transparency to it, as little as 1%. You effectivly have something unseeable, but will force the Transparency Flattener to kick in.
Create a new Transparency Flattener Setting, see my example,
Check the effect with the Flattener Panel, see my example

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