Ar an 4ú lá de mí 4, scríobh Sverre Froyen :

 > Following up to my own posting...
 > 
 > I found that creating a new XF86Config file with xf86cfg solved the problem 
 > with the irregular spacing (but not the mkfontscale issue).  Unfortunately, 
 > by default it sets the color depth to 8 bits.  Adding a "DefaultDepth 24" 
 > line to XF86Config provied 24 bit color as expected and alse makes the font 
 > problem REAPPEAR!???  I had no idea that the fonts were color depth dependent 
 > :-)

Mkfontscale not creating a fonts.scale file for Speedo fonts is expected,
though not ideal; it relies on a FreeType backend for its information, and
FT doesn't handle Speedo fonts at the moment. 

As to the strange spacing, have a look at this message to the XFree86 Devel
list; 

http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg01208.html

It details some problems with vertical font spacing, but that's probably not
your issue ... hmm. I can't suggest anything more beyond searching for
spacing in the usual places; groups.google.com, the XFree86 list archives,
etc. 

(Fonts are obviously colour-depth dependent with antialiasing, if you think
about it; it's not just on/off any more, it's shades of in between.)


 > On Friday 04 April 2003 10:02, Sverre Froyen wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > After upgrading to XFree86 version 4.3.0 and KDE 3.1.0, I notice that
 > > several fonts in, e.g., konsole are displayed with incorrect
 > > intra-character spacing. For instance, the "Fixed [Misc]" font displays
 > > something like
 > >
 > > 	 T h e  Q u i c k  B r o w n  F o x ...
 > >
 > > with slightly more uneven spacings.
 > >
 > > Perhaps related, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ has a file,
 > > fonts.scale, that lists 24 fonts.  However, if I run the mkfontscale
 > > command in that directory, I end up with a fonts.scale file with no fonts
 > > listed.
 > >
 > > Has anyone else problems with the font spacings in KDE and perhaps an idea
 > > about what I might be doing wrong?
 > >
 > > Thank you,
 > >
 > > Sverre
 > >
 > > PS: i386 NetBSD 1.6Q  XFree86 version 4.3.0 (27 February 2003)

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