Resolved: Font display in RH9 changed

Recently while working in RH9, the font display in the topics changed to display differently than the selected font. When I generate, the topics display the appropriate font; however, when I reopen RoboHelp after a reboot, it still displays the odd font. It's like it is displaying MS Sans Serif versus the selected Verdana. Spacing is off as well. all this in the visual display is distracting and makes it difficult to format visually. I published and it seems OK once published as well. The font displays just fine; however, back to the robohelp files, looks weird. Anyone else experience this and figure out how to fix?
I continued reading down through the list of RoboHelp HTML discussions and found the solution in someone else's discussion "Problem with design view display." Adjust the Zoom. the zoom adjusted to 90% for some reason (possibly hit the wrong combination of keys while working) and when adjusted back to 100%, it resolved the problem.
THANKS.

Is the zoom setting perhaps not set to 100%? Can you post a screenshot of the RoboHelp window showing this behaviour?
Greet,
Willam

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dialoginput.plain.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
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dialoginput.plain.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-medium-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
dialoginput.bold.japanese-x0208=-misc-sazanami mincho-medium-r-normal---%d---c--jisx0208.1983-0
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dialoginput.bold.latin-1.motif=-b&h-luxi mono-bold-r-normal---%d---m--iso8859-1
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dialoginput.italic.latin-1=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-i-normal-sans--%d---m--iso8859-1
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For example, the links on google search works fine displaying as I want, but the text beneath the link display in this odd font. it's barely legible. If I could attached an image I know it would help, but not sure I can on this forum. I tried to copy and paste without success.
Any know what this is or experience it?

,I am having a strange 'comic' style font display
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# use the Base-14 Type 1 fonts from ghostscript
displayFontT1 Times-Roman /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Italic /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Bold /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021024l.pfb
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Thanks.

I got brave and gave your font.conf a shot. everything worked great but when building the fontconfig pkg I had to change the source line to...
source=(http://freedesktop.org/~fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.2.2.tar.gz)
other than that the freetype and font pkgbuild files worked and installed fine.
When I replaced my font.conf file with yours, after backing up mine ofcourse, and rebooted I didn't have any problems but the overall apearence was not as good as it was when using my original file. I switched back to my original and no harm done. I don't speak chinese but was curious. I'm just learning abs and building my own packages. I was impressed with your pkgbuild files working and then installing with no errors. The first ones I have ever used that worked. but now when I run pacman -Su it wants to upgrade back to fontconfig-2.2.1-2 and freetype2-2.1.7-1. I should say downgrade. I guess I need to search for an answer to why it doesn't recognize the new pakages as being the latest.

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Here is my chinese opmitised fonts.conf file, and ANYBODY who is using another language is supposed to benefit from it, you can get better font display if it works, so I ask for more tester, all you neet to do is to replace your original fonts.conf file(under your /ete/fonts/) with this one, don't forget backup firstly.
I don't know how to enclose an attachment, so I post my fonts.conf 's content here, I am using freetype 2.1.8 and fontconfig 2.2.2, I compiled them by abs, and almost the same PKGBUILD as Judd, however I don't apply any patches.
fonts.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

<fontconfig>


<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>


<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>mono</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>monospace</string>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>sans serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>


<alias>
<family>Times</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Luxi Serif</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
<family>NSimSun</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
<default><family>serif</family></default>
</alias>

<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Tahoma</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
<family>FZYuanTi</family>
<default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
</alias>

<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<family>Courier New</family>
<family>Andale Mono</family>
<family>Luxi Mono</family>
<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
<family>SimHei</family>
<default><family>monospace</family></default>
</alias>

<match target="pattern">
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="append_last">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>

<include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>

<include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>

<alias>
<family>Times</family>
<accept><family>Times New Roman</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<accept><family>Verdana</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Arial</family>
<accept><family>Verdana</family></accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<accept><family>Courier New</family></accept>
</alias>

<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Luxi Serif</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>Times</family>
<family>STZhongsong</family>
</prefer>
<accept>
<family>SimSun</family>
<family>ZYSong18030</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
</accept>
</alias>
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="any" name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="append" binding="strong">
<string>Verdana</string>
</edit>
</match>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>Baekmuk Gulim</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>FZYuanTi</family>
</prefer>
<accept>
<family>SimHei</family>
<family>STKaiti</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
</accept>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Luxi Mono</family>
<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>Baekmuk Gulim</family>
<family>Andale Mono</family>
<family>Courier New</family>
<family>SimHei</family>
</prefer>
<accept>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
</accept>
</alias>

<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ja</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>

<edit name="rh_prefer_bitmaps" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ko</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh</string>
</test>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">

<test name="slant">
<const>roman</const>
</test>

<test target="pattern" name="slant" compare="not_eq">
<const>roman</const>
</test>

<edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
<times>
<name>matrix</name>
<matrix><double>1</double><double>.2</double>
<double>0</double><double>1</double>
</matrix>
</times>
</edit>

<edit name="slant" mode="assign">
<const>oblique</const>
</edit>
</match>
<config>

<blank>
<int>0x0020</int> 
<int>0x00a0</int> 
<int>0x00ad</int> 
<int>0x115f</int> 
<int>0x1160</int> 
<int>0x1680</int> 
<int>0x2000</int> 
<int>0x2001</int> 
<int>0x2002</int> 
<int>0x2003</int> 
<int>0x2004</int> 
<int>0x2005</int> 
<int>0x2006</int> 
<int>0x2007</int> 
<int>0x2008</int> 
<int>0x2009</int> 
<int>0x200a</int> 
<int>0x200b</int> 
<int>0x200c</int> 
<int>0x200d</int> 
<int>0x200e</int> 
<int>0x200f</int> 
<int>0x2028</int> 
<int>0x2029</int> 
<int>0x202a</int> 
<int>0x202b</int> 
<int>0x202c</int> 
<int>0x202d</int> 
<int>0x202e</int> 
<int>0x202f</int> 
<int>0x205f</int> 
<int>0x2060</int> 
<int>0x2061</int> 
<int>0x2062</int> 
<int>0x2063</int> 
<int>0x206A</int> 
<int>0x206B</int> 
<int>0x206C</int> 
<int>0x206D</int> 
<int>0x206E</int> 
<int>0x206F</int> 
<int>0x3000</int> 
<int>0x3164</int> 
<int>0xfeff</int> 
<int>0xffa0</int> 
<int>0xfff9</int> 
<int>0xfffa</int> 
<int>0xfffa</int> 
</blank>

<rescan>
<int>30</int>
</rescan>
</config>
</fontconfig>
and my freetype 2.1.8 PKGBUILD:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.18 2004/04/30 03:22:41 judd Exp $
# Maintainer: judd <[email protected]>
force=y
pkgname=freetype2
pkgver=2.1.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="TrueType font rendering library"
url="http://freetype.sourceforge.net"
depends=('glibc' 'zlib')
source=(ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/freetype/freetype2/freetype-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
install=freetype2.install
md5sums=('f717615787a1aadbdb164d1bc23c2308')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/freetype-$pkgver
# enable the bytecode interpreter
# patch -Np1 -i ../bytecode.patch
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
PKGBUILD for fontconfig 2.2.2:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.5 2004/02/07 20:49:19 judd Exp $
# Maintainer: judd <[email protected]>
pkgname=fontconfig
pkgver=2.2.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A library for configuring and customizing font access"
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig"
depends=('expat' 'freetype2' 'zlib')
backup=('etc/fonts/local.conf' 'etc/fonts/fonts.conf')
source=(http://pdx.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/releases/fontconfig-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('af6e9a8addfa89aa68d703d5eb004185')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
# patch -Np1 -i ../freetype.patch
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
install -D -m644 ../fonts.conf $startdir/pkg/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/bin
ln -sf /usr/bin/fc-cache $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache

I got brave and gave your font.conf a shot. everything worked great but when building the fontconfig pkg I had to change the source line to...
source=(http://freedesktop.org/~fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.2.2.tar.gz)
other than that the freetype and font pkgbuild files worked and installed fine.
When I replaced my font.conf file with yours, after backing up mine ofcourse, and rebooted I didn't have any problems but the overall apearence was not as good as it was when using my original file. I switched back to my original and no harm done. I don't speak chinese but was curious. I'm just learning abs and building my own packages. I was impressed with your pkgbuild files working and then installing with no errors. The first ones I have ever used that worked. but now when I run pacman -Su it wants to upgrade back to fontconfig-2.2.1-2 and freetype2-2.1.7-1. I should say downgrade. I guess I need to search for an answer to why it doesn't recognize the new pakages as being the latest.

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