problem with TrueType TTF fonts - got only squares, cant read anything

soa · 04-25-2009, 04:29 PM

hi

i have this problem with ttf fonts, after i have copied it to:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msfonts/ (chmod 644)
then fc-cache -fv and when i have selected it i got this:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7...shotresize.png

well i could go and select back to some normal fonts and X would work with them, but then all of the fonts in my browser had disappeared (e.g. web is without any text) so i cannot browse the web at all. and also icedove (thunderbird) crashes after like 3 seconds from start.

i remember i solved this problem once, but i cant remember the solution. i would like to use ttf because the web and pretty much everything looks better to me.

i have Debian Testing, before i got Sid unstable and got no problem with fonts they worked perfectly after solving that problem with squares.

thanks in advance for help!

weibullguy · 04-25-2009, 04:41 PM

That's generally a pango problem. You probably don't have a pango.modules file or it's outdated. Try executing, as root,

Code:

mv -v /etc/pango/pango.modules{,_old}
pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules

soa · 04-25-2009, 04:56 PM

Code:

 mv -v /etc/pango/pango.modules{,_old}
mv: cannot stat `/etc/pango/pango.modules': No such file or directory

pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules
-su: pango-querymodules: command not found

i got this :/

soa · 04-25-2009, 05:29 PM

so i have finally got idea to run icedove in terminal so i could get some fail log

here it is:

Code:

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma 19.1982421875'

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: <unknown error status>

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma 12'

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: <unknown error status>

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Tahoma 10.1982421875'

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: <unknown error status>

(gecko:2858): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory
/usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  2858 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

weibullguy · 04-25-2009, 06:42 PM

Well, now you have something to Google

Code:

failed to create cairo scaled font

Wouldn't be surprised that if you remove the offending font, the problem will go away.

soa · 04-25-2009, 07:13 PM

of course it went. but then i can't use TTF and i want to. simply that does not solves my problem. these linux default fonts now that i have. that is unusable for me.

weibullguy · 04-25-2009, 09:14 PM

You're only having problems (at least as far you know) with the Tahoma font, not all TTF fonts. Just remove the Tahoma font and keep the others. Unless the Tahoma font is the particular TTF font you want. Then Google the error message and see what you find.

soa · 04-26-2009, 07:32 AM

tahoma is one i want. well i googled...havent found anything that worked

i believe this is becuase of this version of debian.

soa · 04-26-2009, 07:11 PM

so after fresh clean reinstall (got lots of other problems with other stuff too)
i have managed to install msttcorefonts from repositories. before i was a bit reluctant to do it because i knew that there were couple fonts missing (tahoma for example). but anyways i have installed it then i found a link to some tahoma original from M$ web. downloaded that put it in the same folder where msttcorefonts are (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ and it worked flawlessly.

so i have checked those old ones i got from my windows. they have different size so maybe they where some kind of different from the originals hmm. so changing from those fonts to origs helped to solve this.

soa · 04-26-2009, 07:15 PM

yeah and i have also upgraded from testing squeeze (becuase i though this is new unstable after sid) to real unstable