Can't get Type 1 fonts in KDE 2 with Anti-aliasing

23 Sep 2001

      Am I right? I thought that anti-aliasing was supposed to work with Type 
1 fonts as well as TrueType fonts.

I've had a problem ever since KDE and X together supported the RENDER 
extension and anti-aliased fonts:

I can get it all to work fine, except that when anti-aliasing is 
enabled, only TrueType fonts are selectable. If anti-aliasing is not 
enabled, I can also get the Type 1 fonts.

Now, my understanding is that anti-aliasing and Xft et al works fine 
with Type 1 as well as TrueType, and I just can't find anything wrong 
with my configuration, having checked all the relevant how-tos etc. that 
I could find, both on the SuSE support database and through Google.

My configuration is as follows (excerpts:)

This is all on SuSE 7.2, though I also had the problem on 7.1. This has 
been with all versions since the first when anti-aliasing became 
possible at all, right up to currently XFree 4.1.0 and KDE 2.2.1/QT 2.3.1.

/etc/X11/XF86Config

Section "Files"
  FontPath      "unix/:7100"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"

<snip>

Section "Module"
  Load          "type1"
  Load          "speedo"
  Load          "extmod"
  Load          "freetype"
  Load          "glx"
  Load          "dri"
  Load          "xft"
EndSection

<snip>

/etc/X11/XftConfig:

# $XFree86: xc/lib/Xft/XftConfig.cpp,v 1.6 2001/04/27 14:55:22 tsi Exp $

dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"

#
# alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
#
match any family == "fixed"             edit family =+ "mono";

#
# Check users config file
#
includeif       "~/.xftconfig"

<snip>

~/.xftconfig:

match edit rgba = rgb;

/etc/X11/fs/config:

# no-listen = tcp
port = 7100
client-limit = 10
clone-self = on
use-syslog = on
deferglyphs = 16

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
            /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,

<snip>

-- 
Rachel

Can't get Type 1 fonts in KDE 2 with Anti-aliasing

Rachel Greenham