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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:09:35
Message-Id: 574F08B3.6060804@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox by Peter Humphrey
1 On 06/01/2016 08:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2016 08:46:35 Daniel Frey wrote:
3 >
4 >> Do you have all the required fonts installed? If you look back a couple
5 >> months I had unreadable prints and distortion and it turned out to be a
6 >> font misconfiguration issue.
7 >
8 > I can't go back that far locally, but these are the fonts I have:
9 >
10 > # eselect fontconfig list
11 > Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
12 > [1] 10-autohint.conf
13 > [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf
14 > [3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
15 > [4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
16 > [5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
17 > [6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
18 > [7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
19 > [8] 10-unhinted.conf
20 > [9] 11-lcdfilter-default.conf
21 > [10] 11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
22 > [11] 11-lcdfilter-light.conf
23 > [12] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
24 > [13] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
25 > [14] 20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
26 > [15] 20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
27 > [16] 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
28 > [17] 30-metric-aliases.conf *
29 > [18] 30-urw-aliases.conf *
30 > [19] 40-nonlatin.conf *
31 > [20] 45-latin.conf *
32 > [21] 49-sansserif.conf *
33 > [22] 50-user.conf *
34 > [23] 51-local.conf *
35 > [24] 57-dejavu-sans.conf *
36 > [25] 57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf *
37 > [26] 57-dejavu-serif.conf *
38 > [27] 60-latin.conf *
39 > [28] 60-liberation.conf
40 > [29] 65-fonts-persian.conf *
41 > [30] 65-khmer.conf
42 > [31] 65-nonlatin.conf *
43 > [32] 69-unifont.conf *
44 > [33] 70-no-bitmaps.conf *
45 > [34] 70-yes-bitmaps.conf *
46 > [35] 75-yes-terminus.conf *
47 > [36] 80-delicious.conf *
48 > [37] 90-synthetic.conf *
49 > [38] 99pdftoopvp.conf
50 >
51 > But why should google-chrome display pages properly and firefox not?
52 >
53
54 You might want to enable liberation-fonts.
55
56 When I was having the weird font issue, firefox was the only thing
57 affected. All other applications would work fine. I actually kept opera
58 around for sites that wouldn't display or print properly, but no longer
59 have to.
60
61 Dan