Subject: Re: khtml font rendering problem
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/08/2004 09:28:36
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 04:46, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 00:52, Mark Kirby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have upgraded kde to 3.3.0 and have been using it for a few days now.
> > All is good except that on certain web pages, e.g.
> > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/ the punctuation is not rendered.
> > Speach marks, apostrophies, colons, semi colons etc are replaced by
> > little empty boxes. If i make the font really small or really large i can
> > see them. It doesn't matter what font sizes or fonts i tell konqueror to
> > use i can never see the punctuation unless i then increase/decrease the
> > fonts using the magnifying glass buttons.
> >
> > Im using NetBSD 2.0G and X 4.4.0.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
>
> Mine is NetBSD-current/i386 + XFree86 4.4 from base + KDE 3.3.0 and all
> works just fine.
>
> http://ianzag.megasignal.com/ss/ss35.png (blog)
> http://ianzag.megasignal.com/ss/ss36.png (vesions)
>
> Probably you have problems with fonts ? As a base font i'm using
> anti-aliased Verdana 9 points from fonts/ms-ttf package.
>
> // wbr

Thanks,

I installed ms-ttf and rebuilt the font cache and it seems to have fixed the 
problem.

Thanks again.

Mark