From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:03:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prrd54xg.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4836EC67.90400@harpegolden.net
On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:10:15 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Stephen Berman wrote:
>
>>> Was this still with FontBackend: xft
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> I recommend "no". Unless you really have a need of particular glyphs
>>> from or just can't live without some old favorite (probably monospace)
>>> bitmap font I guess.
>>
>> My system has the above files and directories. There was no symlink
>> from either of those files, so I added the "no" one, as you suggested,
>> ran fc-cache -fv, and then emacs -q. Helvetica is still not anti-aliased.
>>
>
> Hmm. Think it is also possible to instruct fontconfig not to antialias
> for particular fonts and sizes, but I doubt you've deliberately done that.
At least not consciously :-)
> Er. Mind you, on my system, the only font actually *called* "Helvetica"
> is the bitmap font that IIRC ships with x.org. But quite a few people
> have a "Helvetica" outline font (sometimes of dubious legality). I had
> assumed you had an outline helvetica...
>
> So.... just to cross-check - what does
>
> fc-list : family scalable | grep -i helvetica
>
> now return for you?
Adobe Helvetica:scalable=False
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 18:45 (re)display problems after font backend merge Stephen Berman
2008-05-16 0:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-16 10:22 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-17 3:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-17 12:30 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-17 14:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-17 18:37 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-18 3:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-18 18:19 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-22 20:36 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 4:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 12:28 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 16:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 17:03 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2008-05-23 17:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 19:42 ` James Cloos
2008-05-23 20:41 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 21:57 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-24 1:16 ` James Cloos
2008-05-24 23:01 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-27 13:17 ` Stephen Berman
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