[ILUG] Helvetica Font

[P at draigBrady.com]

Kevin Philp wrote:
> Just curious why all the fonts on my machine (Mandrake 9.1) render beautiful 
> in OpenOffice  with the exception of helvetica which remains a crumbly mess 
> and helvetica doesn't appear in KOffice at all? Here is a bit from our 
> XConfig file... any ideas?
> 
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts"
> FontPath		"/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> #FontPath "unix/:-1"

OpenOffice does it's own font stuff I think.
Ximian's OO may use XFT? Anyway more info here:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2003-November/009001.html

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