Unfortunately I could find no answer for this in the forums. Posting here seems like the next best option. Konqueror won't use any of fonts I specify to render most web pages. No choice of font makes any difference. Instead it reverts to an ugly non-aa default (I think arial or helvetica - not sure). The are nothing unusual, all bitstream vera. I can use the same fonts for the rest of kde. If I login to a suse 9.1 machine instead with the same login, it uses the fonts without hassle. This has persited through various versions of kde, from about 3.2. For example google renders correctly, but bbc does not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 48306 [details] ugly rendering
*** Bug 77701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Are you setting the fonts in the control center or in the konqueror configure dialog (Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Fonts)?
I'm setting them in the konqueror config dialog
So I guess this is the same as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92585 (but there are many others in kde bugzilla). A possibile workaround is to exclude from the search path the ugly helvetica font, that is, removing the directories "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" and "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and from /etx/X11/xorg.conf. But I can't assure this will work, I'm no fonts expert.
Commenting out those directories has no effect. That kde bug seems to be related though. If I emerge the ms core fonts I least get readable aa fonts on the misbehaving web pages. Konqueror still ignores the settings though. Thanks for the tip.
