TTF-font rendering not working anymore

TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Kirk Erickson]

Sorry I didn't report this earlier.  I've been plagued by the
TTF font problem reported by Fridger Schrempp and Michael Bax
and Fridger Schrempp.

Perhaps if someone were to review the checkins previous to
Michael's reporting the problem (11 Nov 2003), it could be resolved.

This is really a showstopper class bug that folks who made
recent checkins should be made aware of.

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kirk

Re: TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Harold L Hunt II]

Kirk,

Somebody needs to give me a three-click test case or I won't even be 
able to confirm that this is indeed a problem.

You do have the "fontconfig" and "freetype2" packages installed on your 
machine, right?

Harold

Kirk Erickson wrote:

> Sorry I didn't report this earlier.  I've been plagued by the
> TTF font problem reported by Fridger Schrempp and Michael Bax
> and Fridger Schrempp.
> 
> Perhaps if someone were to review the checkins previous to
> Michael's reporting the problem (11 Nov 2003), it could be resolved.
> 
> This is really a showstopper class bug that folks who made
> recent checkins should be made aware of.
> 

Re: TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Frank-Michael Moser]

If you need another "me, too", here you are - but sorry, I know that 
this is not really helpful.

I'm not experienced with C programming at all, but if someone has a 
piece of code or anything else to be tested on my box - you are welcome.

Furthermore I found that I have the following line in my .xinitrc
   xset fp+ "$(cygpath -W)/FONTS"

This has worked for me a long time. Without that line I do not get any 
TTF-fonts listed by xfontsel. With that line they are listed but not 
displayed any longer. Is using that command deprecated. I remember that 
I have used a tool to create the description files "fonts.scale", 
"fonts.dir", and "encodings.dir" for that font path. I do not remember 
which tool it was. Maybe I have to recreate these files? Any ideas?

If anybody needs further information or testing, let me know.

Frank-Michael.


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Kirk,
> 
> Somebody needs to give me a three-click test case or I won't even be 
> able to confirm that this is indeed a problem.
> 
> You do have the "fontconfig" and "freetype2" packages installed on your 
> machine, right?
> 
> Harold
> 
> Kirk Erickson wrote:
> 
>> Sorry I didn't report this earlier.  I've been plagued by the
>> TTF font problem reported by Fridger Schrempp and Michael Bax
>> and Fridger Schrempp.
>>
>> Perhaps if someone were to review the checkins previous to
>> Michael's reporting the problem (11 Nov 2003), it could be resolved.
>>
>> This is really a showstopper class bug that folks who made
>> recent checkins should be made aware of.
>>


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Re: TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Lev Bishop]

Harold, you wanted a three-click test case:
$ xfontsel
wait for it to finish parsing all the fonts. Note that it displays the 
alphabet in some default font at the bottom of the window.
Click on family and choose a TTF from the list, eg. one of the Luxis.
Note that the alphabet is no longer displayed. 
Just one click, three is not needed.

There are programmes ttfmkfdir, mkfontscale, mkfontdir, which need to be 
run when adding new fonts or directories, but the files they create are 
already present and rerunning them doesn't change things. Anyway, the 
fonts show up in the xfontsel list, so I think the problem is with the 
rendering, not anything else. 

This is not a problem with the "new style" fonts stuff, fontconfig, etc,
as used by xterm, etc, which work very well for me with the recent
versions, much prettier than the older ones, and even somewhat better than
the version of the freetype2 library that I compiled a while ago for
myself. (So well done everyone for getting all that working!) However, I
expect it is related to the seperating out of the freetype stuff from the
X server. I believe the "old style" (server side) fonts rendering stuff 
uses hacked up parts of freetype1 and freetype2 for dealing with TTF so 
presumably in the seperation process something got broken.

Hope that's useful.

Lev

TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Fridger Schrempp]

> After the recent XFree86-freetype2-fontconfig upgrade of Oct 29, the
> rendering of TTF fonts does not work anymore for me. My TTF fonts are
> still listed correctly e.g. with 'xlsfonts' but /not/ displayed on
> screen anymore e.g. with 'xfontsel', 'xfd'...

> Also xterm continues to work fine, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Luxi Mono" -fs 16'
> produces correct anti-aliased fonts.

> My Cygwin (XFree86) installation is up-to-date.

> Fridger

Since nobody has responded yet to my message of Nov. 10 and (an analogous
one from a second user), I wonder whether TTF font rendering in
X-applications  works for everyone but me with the latest updates?! Also
the X-fontserver 'xfs' still appears to be broken...

Fridger

Re: TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fridger,

I don't know enough about this to comment.  Thus, no comment.

I don't know what is wrong.  You already know more than me because you 
have a test case.  I can't say that I have time to look into this right 
now.  If someone else has time, I would appreciate it.

Harold

Fridger Schrempp wrote:
>>After the recent XFree86-freetype2-fontconfig upgrade of Oct 29, the
>>rendering of TTF fonts does not work anymore for me. My TTF fonts are
>>still listed correctly e.g. with 'xlsfonts' but /not/ displayed on
>>screen anymore e.g. with 'xfontsel', 'xfd'...
> 
> 
>>Also xterm continues to work fine, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Luxi Mono" -fs 16'
>>produces correct anti-aliased fonts.
> 
> 
>>My Cygwin (XFree86) installation is up-to-date.
> 
> 
>>Fridger
> 
> 
> Since nobody has responded yet to my message of Nov. 10 and (an analogous
> one from a second user), I wonder whether TTF font rendering in
> X-applications  works for everyone but me with the latest updates?! Also
> the X-fontserver 'xfs' still appears to be broken...
> 
> Fridger
> 
> 

TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Fridger Schrempp]

After the recent XFree86-freetype2-fontconfig upgrade of Oct 29, the
rendering of TTF fonts does not work anymore for me. My TTF fonts are
still listed correctly e.g. with 'xlsfonts' but /not/ displayed on screen
anymore e.g. with 'xfontsel', 'xfd'...

Also xterm continues to work fine, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Luxi Mono" -fs 16'
produces correct anti-aliased fonts.

My Cygwin (XFree86) installation is up-to-date.

Fridger