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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:49:49
Message-Id: d2e38e1a-c8c8-13a8-1d74-eaf61fe6f2d7@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts by David W Noon
1 Thelma
2 On 03/07/2017 10:12 AM, David W Noon wrote:
3 > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:41:06 -0700, Thelma (thelma@×××××××××××.com) wrote
4 > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
5 > <860e60f9-c35e-24cb-0de7-0ecc3de8b72b@×××××××××××.com>):
6 >
7 > [snip]
8 >> I've emerge htmldoc copied their fonts to /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
9 >> unmerged htmldoc
10 >> run: fc-cache -fv
11 >>
12 >> But the fonts in "flpsed" are still same looking (not impressive).
13 >>
14 >> I've the following fonts installed:
15 >> ll /usr/share/fonts/Helvetica/
16 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31741 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica.afm
17 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31586 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.afm
18 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31896 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm
19 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77039 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfa
20 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70803 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Bold.pfa
21 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar 6 13:04 'Helvetica Neu Bold.ttf'
22 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39520 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueBd.ttf
23 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38016 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue BlackCond.ttf'
24 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39568 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueHv.ttf
25 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43148 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueIt.ttf
26 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Light.ttf'
27 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40104 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueLt.ttf
28 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Medium.ttf'
29 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39656 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeueMed.ttf
30 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40144 Mar 6 13:04 'HelveticaNeue Thin.ttf'
31 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41180 Mar 6 13:04 HelveticaNeue.ttf
32 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32044 Mar 6 13:56 helvetica-normal-58bdcca3a92e8.ttf
33 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32097 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.afm
34 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75595 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica-Oblique.pfa
35 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70952 Mar 6 16:24 Helvetica.pfa
36 >>
37 >> So I don't know what fonts it is looking for.
38 >
39 > You have a bunch of TrueType fonts in that list. Helvetica is not a
40 > TrueType font, but an Adobe Postscript font. The nearest TrueType font
41 > to Helvetica is probably Arial. However, flpsed is definitely looking
42 > for Helvetica, not Arial.
43 >
44 > I would start by deleting the *.ttf files in that directory (or move
45 > them elsewhere) and refreshing the font cache again.
46
47 I removed them.
48 I have bunch of font helvetica:
49 find /usr/share/fonts/ -iname helv*
50 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
51 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
52 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR24-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
53 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
54 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR08-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
55 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvO14-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz
56 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB24-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz
57 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR14-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
58 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
59 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvBO10-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
60 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
61 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR10-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
62 /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
63 ...
64
65 So which group do they belong to?
66
67 eselect fontconfig list
68 Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
69 [1] 10-autohint.conf
70 [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
71 [3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
72 [4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
73 [5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
74 [6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
75 [7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
76 [8] 10-unhinted.conf
77 [9] 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
78 [10] 11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
79 [11] 11-lcdfilter-light.conf
80 [12] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
81 [13] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
82 [14] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
83 [15] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
84 [16] 25-ttf-arphic-ukai-render.conf
85 [17] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-bitmaps.conf
86 [18] 25-ttf-arphic-uming-render.conf
87 [19] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
88 [20] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
89 [21] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
90 [22] 35-ttf-arphic-ukai-aliases.conf
91 [23] 35-ttf-arphic-uming-aliases.conf
92 [24] 40-nonlatin.conf *
93 [25] 41-ttf-arphic-ukai.conf
94 [26] 41-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
95 [27] 42-luxi-mono.conf *
96 [28] 45-latin.conf *
97 [29] 49-sansserif.conf *
98 [30] 50-user.conf *
99 [31] 51-local.conf *
100 [32] 57-dejavu-sans.conf
101 [33] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
102 [34] 57-dejavu-serif.conf
103 [35] 60-latin.conf *
104 [36] 60-liberation.conf *
105 [37] 64-ttf-arphic-uming.conf
106 [38] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
107 [39] 65-khmer.conf
108 [40] 65-nonlatin.conf *
109 [41] 69-unifont.conf *
110 [42] 70-no-bitmaps.conf
111 [43] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf
112 [44] 75-ttf-arphic-ukai-select.conf
113 [45] 75-yes-terminus.conf
114 [46] 80-delicious.conf *
115 [47] 90-synthetic.conf *
116 [48] 90-ttf-arphic-ukai-embolden.conf
117 [49] 90-ttf-arphic-uming-embolden.conf
118 [50] 99pdftoopvp.conf
119
120 I don't see anything starting with "helv"
121 Maybe they are not enabled in my system?
122
123 --
124 Thelma

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Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>