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Bitmap fonts, but not Helvetica

Hi everybody, I have a little Debian font problem. I am using 3.1 (»Sarge«) with fontconfig/defoma/pango, and I wanted to get a bitmap font in KDE's Konsole. I created /etc/fonts/local.conf and added the following lines to force the use of bitmap fonts:

Code:

 <selectfont>

  <acceptfont>

  <pattern>

    <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>

  </pattern>

  </acceptfont>

 </selectfont>

Ok, now I can use the Terminus font. But: Many websites use Helvetica (LQ too), and it's a really ugly bitmap font. I want to
(1) substitute Helvetica with Nimbus Sans L (which looks the same, but is scalable), or
(2) only allow Terminus, and disable other bitmap fonts, or
(3) only allow fixed-width bitmap fonts,
whatever works best. I've tried for a long time now, but I couldn't get a solution. Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
mschutte

Could it be possible that you're making things more complicated than necessary? Have you tried setting up your fonts with the available Debian tools? I'm not much of a fonts expert but here's what I usually do to set up fonts in Debian (and so far I've been happy with the results :)):

(1) Install msttcorefonts (needs contrib enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list)

(2) Rearrange the "Files" section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or /etc/X11/xorg.conf) to look something like this (for larger screen resolutions you might prefer 100dpi fonts to come before 75dpi):

FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

(3) Run "dpkg-reconfigure libpango1.0-common" (as root)
--> Entrust font management to defoma

(4) Run "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" (as root)
--> Turn on Autohinter
--> Enable bitmapped fonts

(5) Run "fc-cache -fv" (as root)

(6) Restart X server (by hitting Control-Alt-BackSpace)

As I said, I'm not much of a fonts expert, but I think rearranging the "Files" section in (2) to look for truetype fonts first makes Firefox to show LQ with antialiased fonts although I made bitmapped fonts available in (4). Anyway, this seems to work for me. :)

Now the fonts look completely different, and Konqueror still uses Helvetica... But thank you, anyway. (The reason could be that I did not, and do not want to, install the Microsoft fonts :))

So, I am still assured that a 'Helvetica -> Nimbus Sans L' mapping would be the best way.

-- mschutte