Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3280 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 21:56 +0100, benefici@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2007. 12. 14., Friday 00:10, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Hmm. Is there such a file, containing metrics - besides the ttf file(s)? I 
> checked the arial black ttf file and it is identical (binary) to what I found 
> under win2k.
> If font metrics are broken then shouldn't this also influence rendering on 
> the 
> screen? But everything looks fine on the screen, no matter what font size and 
> magnification I set.

I sent you the files as you asked. I can't suggest much else, because I
don't understand it properly myself.

> I checked the installation sources. Most of what I have is standard stuff. 
> The 
> only font related things I had from somewhere else were imlib2 and 
> imlib2-loaders from the Packman repository. I downgraded them to the standard 
> opensuse version but that didn't help. I'm going to install opensuse into a 
> virtual machine with all standard settings to investigate further but it will 
> take time...

That sounds a sensible idea. I'm surprised nobody else is having your
problem.

> I don't understand what you mean by "registry". Encoding should not matter 
> because all I'm using are ASCII characters. My locale is set to British 
> English.

See here for example
<http://web.mit.edu/answers/xwindows/xwindows_font_fields.html>
Your email address led me to think you might be using other encodings.
If you're sure you're not then that's one less possible source of
problems.

Sorry I can't help more,
Dave
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