I had a similar problem ealier. In the process of a monthly emerge -u world my fontconfig got updated to a newer version and the konsole-Font as well as helvetica looked really ugly. I thus updated to the current unstable fontconfig to see if it was gone (2.1.94) - and indeed it was. If was even happier when I just realized, that fontconfig 2.2 was out and marked as stable. Still, after emerging helvetica again looks ugly. I know that it is probably not possible to AA helvetica itself - so it should be remapped to a other font. In fact, I think that's how it's been done before. Don't know exactly though. p.s.: The Konsole-Font-Problem has not reappeared in this release. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge fontconfig 2.2.0-r2 2. look at the ugly font (see URL above) Actual Results: non AA'd helvetica (don't know if it's actually the only font affected, but it's the only one I noticed) Expected Results: a AA'd font Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo ggi tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif mozilla gphoto2 X kde qt opengl crypt spell ssl xface alsa gtk gnome aalib directfb fbcon svga" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
Same problem. The only solution I have found is to return to 2.1-r1. * media-libs/fontconfig Latest version available: 2.2.0-r2 Latest version installed: 2.1-r1 Size of downloaded files: 598 kB Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/ Description: A library for configuring and customizing font access.
edit /etc/fonts/local.conf and include truetype directory in fontconfig -------------------------------- <fontconfig> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> </fontconfig> --------------------------------
After upgrading fontconfig from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 all my fonts have changed its appearence. The konsole (of KDE) fonts are ugly. By inserting <match target="font"> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit> </match> in /etc/fonts/local.conf konsole is readable again but my fonts in mozilla still look very different than before upgrading. I have not managed to get back to the previous situation by downgrading to 2.2.1.
This bug is ancient and shouldn't be open, file a new one (and mention what X version you are using). To the reporters here : sorry for no repsonse here, but fonts are somewhat of a personal choice and depend on a lot of factors. I cannot handle this anymore, because it's all outdated packages.
