[SEMI-SOLVED] MonoDevelop fonts are invisible in XMonad

A MonoDevelop project open in the XMonad tiling window manager:
The same MonoDevelop project is shown, but this time I opened it in the MATE Desktop Environment:
Any idea what might be causing the fonts to “disappear” in XMonad?
Note that the text is actually there in XMonad: in MonoDevelop’s editor, I can do CTRL+A CTRL+C and then paste in e.g. LeafPad and see that the text does exist, it is just misteriously invisible.
I would really like to solve this since I want to use XMonad as my everyday environment.
Last edited by Montague (2014-02-14 18:19:33)

Well this issue is semi-solved, but honestly I do not know what fixed it.
I wish I had a specific fix to share in case someone else encouters the same issue, but for the record here is what I tried, in no particular order.
(The two last points probably have nothing to do with the problem I was having, as they relate to how Java programs behave in tiling WM, but as I said, I have no clue what fixed my invisible fonts in MonoDevelop (in XMonad), so I’ll just dump everything I did in that list…) :
installed ttf-ms-fonts from the AUR
installed a few themes from the AUR, i.e. adwaita-x-dark-and-light-theme and a few others
removed `wmname LG3D' from my `~/.xinitrc'
uncommented export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in `/etc/profile.d/jre.sh'
I think that’s it.
P.S. : however, fonts are still invisible on some tabs in MonoDevelop, but that problem happens in both XMonad and MATE, so I marked this as [SEMI-SOLVED]. Any input appreciated !
XMonad :
MATE :
Last edited by Montague (2014-02-14 18:07:02)

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00 7C 01 07 00 01 00 94 01 08 00 00 00 93 01 08
00 01 00 7D 00 09 00 00 00 2D 00 0A 00 01 00 2E
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00 96 00 0C 00 00 00 2F 02 0D 00 01 00 30 02 0D
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00 50 03 0A 80 01 00 0E 01 64 80 01 00 0F 01 65
80 01 00 47 01 68 80 01 00 46 01 69 80 01 00 36
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External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
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Port Connector Information
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Internal Connector Type: Other
External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
Handle 0x0014, DMI type 8, 9 bytes
Port Connector Information
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Internal Connector Type: Other
External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
Handle 0x0015, DMI type 8, 9 bytes
Port Connector Information
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Internal Connector Type: Other
External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
Handle 0x0016, DMI type 8, 9 bytes
Port Connector Information
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Internal Connector Type: Other
External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
Handle 0x0017, DMI type 8, 9 bytes
Port Connector Information
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Internal Connector Type: Other
External Reference Designator: Not Specified
External Connector Type: None
Port Type: Other
Handle 0x0018, DMI type 9, 17 bytes
System Slot Information
Designation: J6B2
Type: x16 PCI Express
Current Usage: In Use
Length: Long
ID: 0
Characteristics:
3.3 V is provided
Opening is shared
PME signal is supported
Bus Address: 0000:00:01.0
Handle 0x0019, DMI type 9, 17 bytes
System Slot Information
Designation: J6B1
Type: x1 PCI Express
Current Usage: In Use
Length: Short
ID: 1
Characteristics:
3.3 V is provided
Opening is shared
PME signal is supported
Bus Address: 0000:00:1c.3
Handle 0x001A, DMI type 10, 6 bytes
On Board Device Information
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Status: Enabled
Description: Mobile Intel HD Graphics
Handle 0x001B, DMI type 11, 5 bytes
OEM Strings
String 1: Dell System
String 2: 1[05E3h]
String 3: 3[1.0]
String 4: 4[0001]
String 5: 5[0000]
String 6: 6[D0, D4, D8, DA, DE]
String 7: 7[]
String 8: 8[]
String 9: 9[]
String 10: 10[A02]
String 11: 11[]
String 12: 12[]
String 13: 13[P20S]
String 14: 14[0]
String 15: 15[0]
Handle 0x001C, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
System Configuration Options
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Handle 0x001D, DMI type 21, 7 bytes
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Interface: Bus Mouse
Buttons: 2
Handle 0x001E, DMI type 22, 26 bytes
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Serial Number: Not Specified
Name: DELL 7YM0739
Chemistry: Lithium Ion
Design Capacity: 51060 mWh
Design Voltage: 7400 mV
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Tolerance: 0.5 deg C
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Handle 0xB000, DMI type 176, 10 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
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Handle 0xB100, DMI type 177, 12 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
B1 0C 00 B1 1A 06 00 00 00 00 00 00
Handle 0x0025, DMI type 208, 12 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
D0 0C 25 00 02 05 FE 00 E3 05 01 02
Strings:
20130614
20130924
Handle 0x0026, DMI type 212, 57 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
D4 39 26 00 70 00 71 00 01 49 50 48 9C 00 49 FC
01 9B 00 49 FC 00 7F 01 4A FB 04 80 01 4A FB 00
53 01 4A F7 08 52 01 4A F7 08 7B 01 4A EF 10 7C
01 4A EF 10 FF FF 00 00 00
Handle 0x0027, DMI type 216, 9 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
D8 09 27 00 01 02 01 00 00
Strings:
INTEL
0000
Handle 0x0028, DMI type 217, 8 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
D9 08 28 00 01 02 00 00
Strings:
Handle 0x0029, DMI type 219, 11 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
DB 0B 29 00 00 01 02 03 00 04 05
Strings:
Handle 0x002A, DMI type 220, 22 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
DC 16 2A 00 01 F0 00 00 02 F0 00 00 00 00 03 F0
04 F0 00 00 00 00
Handle 0x002B, DMI type 221, 19 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
DD 13 2B 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00
Handle 0x002C, DMI type 222, 16 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
DE 10 2C 00 01 08 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Handle 0x002D, DMI type 4, 42 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: SOCKET 0
Type: Central Processor
Family: Core i5
Manufacturer: Intel
ID: 51 06 04 00 FF FB EB BF
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 69, Stepping 1
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
DS (Debug store)
ACPI (ACPI supported)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
SS (Self-snoop)
HTT (Multi-threading)
TM (Thermal monitor supported)
PBE (Pending break enabled)
Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Voltage: 1.2 V
External Clock: 100 MHz
Max Speed: 3800 MHz
Current Speed: 1600 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: Socket rPGA988B
L1 Cache Handle: 0x0004
L2 Cache Handle: 0x0005
L3 Cache Handle: 0x0006
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Fill By OEM
Part Number: Fill By OEM
Core Count: 2
Core Enabled: 2
Thread Count: 4
Characteristics:
64-bit capable
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
Socket Designation: CPU Internal L1
Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 1
Operational Mode: Write Back
Location: Internal
Installed Size: 128 kB
Maximum Size: 128 kB
Supported SRAM Types:
Unknown
Installed SRAM Type: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
System Type: Other
Associativity: 8-way Set-associative
Handle 0x0005, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
Socket Designation: CPU Internal L2
Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 2
Operational Mode: Write Back
Location: Internal
Installed Size: 512 kB
Maximum Size: 512 kB
Supported SRAM Types:
Unknown
Installed SRAM Type: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
System Type: Unified
Associativity: 8-way Set-associative
Handle 0x0006, DMI type 7, 19 bytes
Cache Information
Socket Designation: CPU Internal L3
Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 3
Operational Mode: Write Back
Location: Internal
Installed Size: 3072 kB
Maximum Size: 3072 kB
Supported SRAM Types:
Unknown
Installed SRAM Type: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
System Type: Unified
Associativity: 12-way Set-associative
Handle 0x0007, DMI type 16, 23 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: None
Maximum Capacity: 16 GB
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Number Of Devices: 2
Handle 0x0020, DMI type 17, 34 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0007
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 2048 MB
Form Factor: SODIMM
Set: None
Locator: ChannelA-DIMM0
Bank Locator: BANK 0
Type: DDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous
Speed: 1600 MHz
Manufacturer: Hynix/Hyundai
Serial Number: 00000001
Asset Tag: 0987654321
Part Number:
Rank: 1
Configured Clock Speed: 1600 MHz
Handle 0x0023, DMI type 20, 35 bytes
Memory Device Mapped Address
Starting Address: 0x00000000000
Ending Address: 0x0007FFFFFFF
Range Size: 2 GB
Physical Device Handle: 0x0020
Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x002F
Partition Row Position: 2
Interleave Position: 1
Interleaved Data Depth: 1
Handle 0x0024, DMI type 17, 34 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0007
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 2048 MB
Form Factor: SODIMM
Set: None
Locator: ChannelB-DIMM0
Bank Locator: BANK 2
Type: DDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous
Speed: 1600 MHz
Manufacturer: Hynix/Hyundai
Serial Number: 00000002
Asset Tag: 0987654321
Part Number:
Rank: 1
Configured Clock Speed: 1600 MHz
Handle 0x002E, DMI type 20, 35 bytes
Memory Device Mapped Address
Starting Address: 0x00080000000
Ending Address: 0x000FFFFFFFF
Range Size: 2 GB
Physical Device Handle: 0x0024
Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x002F
Partition Row Position: 2
Interleave Position: 1
Interleaved Data Depth: 1
Handle 0x002F, DMI type 19, 31 bytes
Memory Array Mapped Address
Starting Address: 0x00000000000
Ending Address: 0x000FFFFFFFF
Range Size: 4 GB
Physical Array Handle: 0x0007
Partition Width: 2
Handle 0x0037, DMI type 131, 64 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
83 40 37 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F8 00 43 9C 00 00 00 00 01 20 00 00 05 00 09 00
D1 05 02 00 00 00 00 00 C8 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 76 50 72 6F 00 00 00 00
Handle 0x0038, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
BIOS Language Information
Language Description Format: Long
Installable Languages: 1
en|US|iso8859-1
Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1
Handle 0x0039, DMI type 127, 4 bytes
End Of Table
Last edited by fungi (2013-10-13 10:31:45)

Semi solved the problem by building a kernel with an ubuntu .config from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/ma … y/current/
I think i have multi touch working on the touchscreen, but this has resulted in breakage of the synapic touchpad which is now operating in a very simple mode (no scrolling or multitouch).
Probably best to follow https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1218973 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/32207 for a real solution

Some web fonts are not rendered

When I visit some sites that use web fonts, the web fonts are not rendered. It does not render with the wrong font - the text is completely invisible.
On other sites, web fonts work just fine, and I cannot understand why some web fonts work and some don't.
Examples of non-working sites:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/ (headers shown, article text missing)
https://www.sbab.se/ (huge top header missing)
http://onlinepizza.se/ (headers and button texts missing)
Examples of working sites:
http://www.google.com/fonts
http://www.typetester.org/
On the Network -> Fonts tab in the inspector, no downloads are shown on the broken sites. Is there a font cache that I can delete?
I have tried uninstalling firefox, deleting all profiles and installing it again. Nothing changes.

Works fine here on Linux.
Right-click > "Inspect Element" > Font shows:
*http://blog.mailchimp.com/ Copyright (C) H&FJ | typography.com (Whitney SSm B) & Copyright (C) H&FJ | typography.com (Whitney SSm A)
*https://www.sbab.se/ SBABSansStencilBeta-Bold
*http://onlinepizza.se/Stockholm/ MuseoSans-700
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
*Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
*Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
*Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)

My fonts are not visible in character panel in Illustrator 5

Hi
Its kind of hard to explain. The fonts are there but I cannot see them on the list unless I roll my mouse over them.
I want to reinstall the entire program but I wanted to know if anyone else has this problem.
I also want to upgrade but can't until next month.
I don't know if Extentis is causing any of the problem. I am currently running version 5.
I am also on Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.1
Roe

rose,
I believe this may solve it:
Open System Preferences and go to Accessibility. Next, select Display from the source list along the left, then check the box labelled Reduce transparency.
It was first presented in this post #15 by TheUlser:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6854594#6854594
It has been described on this Adobe page:
http://capitalmacservice.com/font-preview-working-illustrator-cs-5-yosemite-fix/
It may also depend on the monitor, as it appears from post #29 by Loncar in the same thread.
Obviously, this also influences some other things so there may be a downside to it.
Edit: hi Dov. Soon it may be just you and I here.

[SOLVED] Java Font Too Small in OpenBox

I usually use Cinnamon, but decided to give OpenBox a whirl again. I am encountering a problem with OpenBox and the size of fonts in Java apps. I'm using the Oracle JDK, not OpenJDK.
These first screenshots show the font on OpenBox being too small:
http://www.dadburn.com/linuxscreenshots … tprob1.png
http://www.dadburn.com/linuxscreenshots … tprob2.png
As you can see, the fonts used for the controls is super tiny. As can be seen from the second example, the font can be configured in the editing portion through the applications. But the controls themselves remain too small.
When I log into the SAME account, but use Cinnamon, the fonts are fine. Reference:
http://www.dadburn.com/linuxscreenshots … tprob3.png
http://www.dadburn.com/linuxscreenshots … tprob4.png
So the only difference in these screenshots are the fonts. And the only difference is that I am using Cinnamon vs OpenBox. I;ve searched Google and the Wiki and the Forums, but I'm either not using the proper search terms or just overlooking the results. Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Also, I am using the fontconfig-infinality stuff. I don't think that matters and again, Cinnamon works and OpenBox has too small a font. And the problem is only on Java apps, not other things.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by mrunion (2014-08-10 03:10:58)

I've done more digging. I have this in my /etc/profile:
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'
Well, this screws up gdx-setup (the first screenshot). If I only use
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'
Then gdx-setup looks fine. Netbeans was still messed up either way. I did find that it seems Netbeans has issues with the GTK+ look and feel on non-GTK platforms. So I reverted NetBeans to the (ugly) Metal theme and now the fonts are bigger.
So I am marking this as solved. It seems that the GTK+ look and feel is just not happy on non-GTK+ platforms. I guess that makes sense in a way.

(Solved) Openbox font too small

I've removed gnome and installed openbox, and now my fonts are too small. My firefox webpage fonts are fine, tint2 fonts are ok as well. But I think some leftover gnome setting is affecting it. I deleted .gnome2, but it's not working. What should I do?
EDIT: Fixed! Didn't think of Xorg at first
Last edited by zephyrus17 (2009-11-05 11:53:03)

I've done more digging. I have this in my /etc/profile:
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'
Well, this screws up gdx-setup (the first screenshot). If I only use
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on'
Then gdx-setup looks fine. Netbeans was still messed up either way. I did find that it seems Netbeans has issues with the GTK+ look and feel on non-GTK platforms. So I reverted NetBeans to the (ugly) Metal theme and now the fonts are bigger.
So I am marking this as solved. It seems that the GTK+ look and feel is just not happy on non-GTK+ platforms. I guess that makes sense in a way.

[svn] 1384: Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is us

Revision: 1384
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-04-24 07:54:58 -0700 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008)
Log Message:
Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is used.
Also improving [Embed] so that it can recognize .TTC files as assets (previously these were only recognized through CSS @font-face rules).
QE: Yes, please add a test case for using [Embed] to embed fonts from a TTC file in addition to our tests for @font-face. Note that the AFEFontManager must be configured for this scenario.
Doc: No
Checkintests: Pass
Mxunit: AtEmbed Font suite: Pass
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/AbstractTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/FontTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/util/MimeMappings.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/PreLink.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/CachedFontManager.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/Dictionary.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/MovieEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagDecoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagHandler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagValues.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/builder/tags/FontBuilder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontAlignZones.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontInfo.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java
Added Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/DefineFont3Face.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont1.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont2.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont3.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont4.java
Removed Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/DefineFontFace.java

Running the script by python2 solves it for me:
su - mythtv -c "nice -n 19 python2 /usr/bin/tv_grab_nl_py --output ~/listings.xml"
Best regards,
Cedric

Does anybody know how to solve this font problem?

Hello everyone,
I have had this font problem for weeks now and I can't seem to get it solved. There are a number of fonts that won't load properly in Illustrator, PS, and InDesign. They are loaded in the system, but refuse to show up in the list. I've installed them in the home directory/library/fonts. These are commercial opentype fonts and one homemade opentype font. Sometimes the font that I created will appear, other times it does not, but many other fonts refuse to show up in the font display lists of these 3 software packages.
I've cleared the font caches with FontNuke, everything looks like it should work properly, but it does not. Also, with Font Book, I've resolved any duplicate font problems. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Is this a known CS4 bug?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm using the latest Mac Mini and CS4 software.
Thanks in advance.
CB

Hi,
How do I check if the fonts have the correct creator and so on?
Anyway, I've spent the better part of today validating and removing suspect
fonts. Why does the right click choice for resolve duplicates and the
validate font behave completely differently in Font Book? I discovered that
when this is investigated further with the validate font command, I found I
had a massive amount of duplicates that according to font book cause minor
errors. I thought that would have been sorted out with the resolve duplicate
command, instead I ended up check marking and manually removing the fonts
that had minor errors.
I still have many commercial fonts plus my own font not showing up in
Illustrator or PhotoShop. If I copy and paste the font directly into
InDesign's font folder, my font shows up. I also tried removing my font to
see if this would fix any of the other problems. It doesn't. I did type in
my font name in the console dialog box and this message is displayed for
this font as well as mine and many others.
10-04-06 5:21:09 PM Font Book[12940] ##### ERROR: The font system thinks
the font
file://localhost/Library/Fonts/Voluta%20Script%20Pro/VolutaScriptPro-Regular.otf
is active, but the file no longer exists!
Then I went back to font book to check to see if it is there and it is
enabled. For my font the caution triangle appears with the multiple copies
of the font is installed. Resolving duplicates doesn't solve this problem.
Any ideas of how to fix this problem?
Thanks
CB

While in zh|ja locale, zh|ja fonts are used even for Latin... why?

One thing that has always bothered me is that my system uses funny fonts when it is running in a non-English locale, and I think I finally found the culprit.
When I check for font matching in English everything seems normal:
$ fc-match -s "sans"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
iYaHei.ttf: "iYaHei" "Regular"
malgun.ttf: "Malgun Gothic" "Regular"
kartika.ttf: "Kartika" "Regular"
arialuni.ttf: "Arial Unicode MS" "Normal"
But, if I were to do it in Chinese or Japanese:
$ fc-match -s "sans:lang=zh|ja"
iYaHei.ttf: "iYaHei" "Regular"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
malgun.ttf: "Malgun Gothic" "Regular"
kartika.ttf: "Kartika" "Regular"
arialuni.ttf: "Arial Unicode MS" "Normal"
DejaVuSans goes /after/ iYaHei. This is a problem, as iYaHei's Latin glyphs look horrible; its CJK glyphs, while not the best, are at least extensive, which is why I use it. For monospace it is even more of a problem, because then Arial MS Unicode, which isn't even a monospace font gets priority over DejaVu Sans Mono in zh|ja environments.
This is my current fonts.conf:
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>Monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>iYaHei</family>
<family>Malgun Gothic</family>
<family>Kartika</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>AR PL New Sung</family>
<family>MS Mincho</family>
<family>MingLiU</family>
<family>MingLiU-ExtB</family>
<family>MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB</family>
<family>MS Song</family>
<family>UnBatang</family>
<family>RaghuMalayalam</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<dir>/home/sokuban/.fontmatrix</dir>
<dir>/home/sokuban/.Fontmatrix/Activated</dir>
</fontconfig>
This is probably happening because while I'm in a zh|ja locale, the system is looking for the highest font on my priority list that says it is a zh|ja font and then uses it—even to cover Latin etc glyphs that fonts higher in my priority list can cover; I'm guessing this is because it is assuming that those fonts aren't suitable for use in a zh|ja environment.
So the simplest way to solve the problem that everyone would immediately think of is to say that DejaVu can do zh|ja. I (presume) it wouldn't cause any problems even though they can't, because then they will simply borrow from real zh|ja fonts and will now at least be used in a zh|ja locale. Actually, I would want this behaviour no matter what way I decide to solve the problem.
The other—and better—solution to the problem would be to specifically set a different priority list to be used for different languages. That way when the system looks for "sans:lang=zh_TW", it'll get DejaVu at the top of the list to handle Latin, and then a nice traditional Chinese font. Likewise if the system looked for "sans:lang=ja", it'll get DejaVu with a nice Japanese font. Before I didn't think this was possible, but now that I see how this font matching is working, it would be weird if it wasn't possible.
Right now I have these nice Chinese/Japanese fonts installed on my system, but I don't always get to use them (mostly while browsing, if the html is nice enough). I made my system default iYaHei (and the firefly font for serif) because iYaHei covers almost all of CJK and is readable. If I were to put one of the nice Chinese or Japanese fonts as my system default, I'd end up having some glyphs being borrowed from another font, and it looks really ugly when this happens. Monolinguals don't have this problem, because they can just set their system font to their language, and then be done with it, as they'll rarely need to display any glyphs unsupported.
If anyone can help me, especially with getting a different priority list for different languages, it would be appreciated.

Hmm, that seems to work fine for one language, but I put 4 languages in there and only the first one I put works properly:
This would be my fontconfig
<fontconfig>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_TW</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Serif</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
<string>MingLiU</string>
<string>MingLiU-ExtB</string>
<string>MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_TW</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
<string>Microsoft JhengHei</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_TW</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
<string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_CN</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Serif</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
<string>MS Song</string>
<string>WenQuanYi Bitmap Song</string>
<string>AR PL New Sung</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_CN</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
<string>Microsoft YaHei</string>
<string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>zh_CN</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
<string>WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono</string>
<string>AR PL New Sung</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ja</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Serif</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
<string>MS PMincho</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ja</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
<string>Meiryo</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ja</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
<string>MS Gothic</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ko</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Serif</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
<string>Batang</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ko</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
<string>Malgun Gothic</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>ko</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
<string>UnTaza</string>
</edit>
</match>
<alias>
<family>Monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>iYaHei</family>
<family>Malgun Gothic</family>
<family>Kartika</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>AR PL New Sung</family>
<family>MS Mincho</family>
<family>MingLiU</family>
<family>MingLiU-ExtB</family>
<family>MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB</family>
<family>MS Song</family>
<family>UnBatang</family>
<family>RaghuMalayalam</family>
<family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
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<dir>/home/sokuban/.Fontmatrix/Activated</dir>
</fontconfig>
I had to put zh_TW at the very top, otherwise matching for zh_TW would pull up meiryo first. There is still one little problem in that matching for ko will pull up MS Mincho before Batang, but whatever, I don't really care that much. Meiryo and Malgun Gothic also still go before DejaVu Sans for some reason, but this again doesn't really matter, and might actually be a good thing.
So far setting it like this seems to work to some degree. More of Niconico Douga uses Meiryo now (the search bar and stuff still uses iYaHei, but I don't think much can be done about that), if I run a program with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 and it has Japanese support it'll use Meiryo too. But this doesn't work with Chinese. (I guess because I had country codes in my Chinese matching rules) Oh well, this is still a step up, and Trad Chinese with a Simp Chinese font isn't as bad as Japanese with a Simp Chinese font; I've gotten used to seeing it everywhere. (Heck, the book I'm using to study Chinese now is a translation from a book made to study Simplified - and although it is a traditional book, it still uses the same simplified font.)
EDIT: Actually, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the program having Japanese support or not. Some programs will use Meiryo, others will completely ignore the fontconfig settings (and use iYaHei). Sonata for example, even though it had a working Japanese localization, used iYaHei, while thunar and mousepad used Meiryo.
I used to have this bug that pretty much made working in CJK locales impossible, it took a really long time to open up terminals because of the messed up font settings. This seems to be fixed in a Japanese locale, but not a Taiwanese. Again, I guess this has to do with the country code above. (If you use a country code do you need to put a different syntax? Because other than the fc-match -s "sans:lang=zh_TW" results, the Chinese lines don't seem to have any effect—though I guess if that command shows it, they must be affected?)
Also, I'm not sure if I've been blind and not noticed it until now, but after applying these Changes /all/ kana are using Meiryo. (Unless specified otherwise) This is both a good thing and a bad thing—no, I think it is a bad thing. Because Japanese text uses kana and kanji (CJK unified block). So now when I have a Japanese filename in thunar, the kana shows up using a proper Japanese font, but the Chinese Characters in the name show up using a Chinese font. While this is kind of okay of the fonts look similar, it isn't a good solution because not all fonts are designed to work well with each other, and my main goal in this quest is to avoid having to "borrow" from another font when the default font can't display a glyph properly. (Meiryo and iYaHei kiiinda look similar, so it isn't that bad, but if one day I decided to set my default gtk font to serif for some reason then I'll have problems for sure.) If somehow the system was able to tell if the text was Japanese or Chinese and use the appropriate font, that would be good, but I am aware that that sort of magic is impossible.
I want the computer to be able to use the correct font when some program specifies the text is in that language (perhaps by the locale, or perhaps by the other magic method niconico uses), but I want the english locale to use iYaHei for everything just to be safe because it works.
I have tried doing something like:
<match>
<test name="lang" compare="contains">
<string>en</string>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>sans-serif</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
<string>iYaHei</string>
<string>Malgun Gothic</string>
<string>Kartika</string>
<string>Arial Unicode MS</string>
</edit>
</match>
Hoping that that would allow iYaHei to be used as the main fallback while using an English locale, but that doesn't happen; it still uses Meiryo for Kana, but it uses WenQuanYi Zen Hei for Chinese, which looks even worse than Meiryo and iYaHei.
So now I'm debating whether to use the new configurations or the old configurations. The new configurations fix a few things in Japanese locales, but cause a possibly grave problem in non-Japanese locales. I'm sure it has a few other effects too, but I didn't notice them yet.
What exactly is this fontconfig format supposed to do? Because it clearly isn't "setting a priority list for fonts to be used in a certain language". It seems more like "setting a priority list for fonts that are labelled as a certain language". Or maybe it just does some random stuff to the fonts described. I can't tell.
The core of the problem seems to be in the fonts themselves. Somehow, these fonts are claiming to cover "Chinese, Japanese, Korean" etc etc and while they probably do that, most can only cover 1 language in an acceptable way. Where do the fonts store this information? Is there a way to edit this?
Last edited by sokuban (2009-12-04 19:24:41)

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