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From: | Serge Bromow |
Subject: | Re: [XForms] Fonts used by Xforms on recent Fedora |
Date: | Thu, 06 May 2010 15:59:50 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) |
Jens Thoms Toerring wrote: Not Really. I use a common routine in advance of "fl_initialize" to set other parameters so I can set the font fixes there.Hi Serge, On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:43:57AM -0400, Serge Bromow wrote:Yes indeed this is a problem that has plagued me for some time. It would appear that we Fedora folk are the victims of cruel font joke. Take a look at "http://www,dineamix.ca/xforms". These images show the different font rendering in Fedora 5 vs Ubuntu 10.4 which uses the same font handling method as Fedora 10 and forward. Obviously they are not the same size and they create havoc with applications being ported to various operating system (see last pictures). In my case I use RedHat 7.3 and Fedora 5 operating systems and both use the font server approach. In the "/etc/X11/fs/config" file show here note that the 75 dpi font is listed before the 100 dpi and the 75dpi is favoured in the default-resolution statement. //-------------------------------------------------- catalogue = /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts, # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 // -------------------------------------------------- So a call for Helvetica/Courier/Times fonts returns the 75dpi font first and all is well on our screens. Simply adding the font server package (xfs) can fix the problem in the Fedora 10 and on. Simply ensure the 75dpi fonts are specified before the 100dpi.Do you see any way I could do something to ease the pain a bit? One way might be to try to figure out the prefered font resolution and put it into the query for the fonts, similar to what you proposed to do manually with Maybe something like fl_force_dpi(int dpi) would be usefull but I'm not sure I have found the real problem yet. This would be a shot in the dark and we don't want to disturb others for what I believe is a one off problem.you can edit the "forms-source/lib/fonts.c" file and change the entries below to force 75dpi.That wouldn't be a big deal once one knows which is the correct font resolution for the system. Currently the library tries to figure out the screen resolution (in lib/flresources.c around line 1155). Now I could use that for a guess for the appropriate font resolution. "Interesting" are corner cases when the screen resolution is near to the middle between 75 and 100 dpi - which font resolution do I prefer then? Since I have both machines in front of me I will test further and get back to you with the results. Thanks, Serge All comments (or better ideas) will be appreciated;-) Best regards, Jens --
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