Fonts look different after upgrade?
 

I run Debian unstable. I did an apt-get update/upgrade last night. A lot of the upgrade involved fonts, from watching the screen.

This morning, my fonts look different. Not bad, mind you, just different. Thunderbird, Firefox, are still using the fonts I like (sans serif, mostly). Anyone else notice this? Sorry I can't describe this any better.

Not really a problem, more of a query wondering what happened.

Barbara

I had that same problem, it seemed that fontconfig got upgraded. I could never get my fonts back the way they were, after some messing around, so I ended up just compiling my own freetype package without the bytecode interpreter. Hopefully someone will post a better solution here.

same problem here. The best I can describe it is they are "weedy". Didn't even really matter whether TT or other. Ending up changing to different fonts, bold, etc to see them well. I too will watch for a solution or at least another fontconfig upgrade coming out. SID here.

#!/bin/sh
if test $(id -u) != 0; then
echo Error: You must be root to run this script!
exit 1
fi
for dir in /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts; do
cd /
find $dir -name *ttf |while read x; do dirname $x; done|sort|uniq|while read x$
echo ttf processing... $x
cd $x
rm -f encodings.dir fonts.alias fonts.dir fonts.scale
mkttfdir
done
cd /
find $dir -name *pcf.gz|while read x; do dirname $x; done|sort|uniq|while read$
echo pcf processing... $x
cd $x
rm -f encodings.dir fonts.alias fonts.dir fonts.scale
update-fonts-scale $(basename $x)
update-fonts-dir $(basename $x)
update-fonts-alias $(basename $x)
done
done
fc-cache -f





save as fix-fonts.sh
in /usr/local/bin
chmod
run it


Will regenerate the font cache....update it.

> Will regenerate the font cache....update it.

I have the same problem but I got an error on the 13th line of the little script, the "done".

/usr/local/bin/fix-fonts.sh: line 22: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
/usr/local/bin/fix-fonts.sh: line 22: `done'

Any suggestions?

Alex.

OK, for starters, there is a line missing from the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 config file:

FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server

coming right after

Section "Files".

I added it by hand, restarted X, and there are some new fonts that it sees, but not all the ones I had before.

Still looking for answers.

Alex.

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Sorry, this did not work. Fonts are still "different" :(

In "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" that Moloko suggested you can choose different options and your fonts will look different according to what you choose. Personally I prefer Autohinter but you may prefer some other rendering option. Run "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" a couple of times and experiment by choosing different options, and you should be able to make the fonts look like they used to before the fontconfig upgrade.

YESSSSSS, cool !!! Even better than before

Thanks guys !

:cool: :D