Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:10:15 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> 
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