Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Romanian special characters look bad in LibreOffice (and other text editors)
There are certain Romanian characters (ș, î, ț, ă, â) which are handled differently in the different key layouts.
The standard layout makes them look odd, different from the other letters in ...
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How to improve evince font smoothing
I'm wondering if it is possible to change evince font rendering and make it render fonts like adobe acrobat reader.
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System-wide smoothing is off, but evince smooths anyway
I managed to turn of smoothing system-wide in ubuntu (see screenshot) including font in applications.
However, evince (and other pdf readers) does not respect smoothing turned off and smooths text ...
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Bold font in user interface of LibreOffice
I just had a new installation of LibreOffice from apt-get and it seems that all the fonts in the user interface (text in menus, text in dialogs etc...) appears to be bold.
It creates an ...
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Font rendering - infinality patches
There is a PPA https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter= with patches Infinality оn freetype and cairo for 11.04 11.10 12.04 12.10 13.04
But the updates are done only ...
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Kubuntu with splotchy fonts in gtk apps
In Kubuntu I occasionally get splotchy fonts in gtk applications.
Splotchy-ness can range from slightly annoying to completely unreadable.
As far as I can tell, the problem only occurs in gtk apps.
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Using fonts with older apps (ctwm, ical), and finding more fonts to use
I am using various old/legacy tools, such as ctwm and ical, which appear to prefer the fonts -- specifically, the font names -- returned by xlsfonts, instead of fc-list. That is, if I specify a font ...
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How to use custom fonts for a Wine application?
My windows application needs specialized fonts. The fonts ship with the application so I don't need to download any extra fonts. When I installed the application it automatically installed the fonts ...
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Helvetica Neue font defaults to medium instead of regular
I've installed the set of Helvetica Neue truetype fonts in my ~/.fonts directory, and they all show up correctly with fc-list. However, if an application selects the standard font, it's returning the ...
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How to fix with the Font at the Terminal?
I would like how to repair this problem with Font at the Terminal ( gnome-shell ) and at the headers of the windows . It happened after that I try install conky to view gadgets on the screen.
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In unity's dash, how do I change the font colour?
I seem to have white font over a white background when I press "super" or the dash button on the launcher. Can I change the font colour or make it darker in the dash?
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Bad Bengali font?
I just installed Precise in my native language (Bengali). I'd post an image, but apparently new users can't post images on this forum.
The Bengali font is oddly small and difficult to read.
I don't ...
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When I install Xubuntu 12.04, the Qt-applications font is horrible
What is the proper way to set up fonts in Skype, VLC, and so on?
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Qt5 font rendering in Ubuntu 13.04
My fonts in general within QtCreator inside Ubuntu 13.04 looks 'ugly' when compared to how they looked in 12.10.
12.10 still used Qt4, so did something regarding the font rendering in Qt5 and the ...
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Font corruption in Firefox
Characters are periodically not displayed correctly on some websites in Firefox. An example is http://askubuntu.com/questions/ask where the 'w' in the title "How to Format" gets displayed as an ...
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The unicode fonts layout provided by Ubuntu vs. the official font layout
While choosing Nepali language. I see there are slight differences between the layout provided by Ubuntu's Keyboard Layout vs. the standard font layout provided for Nepali language.
I am also not ...
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How Does Fontconfig Deactive a Font?
Does anyone know what system or user settings Fontconfig changes when it deactivates fonts on your system?
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Fix Fonts in Chrome?
After installing and removing Kubuntu, some of the fonts in Chrome are showing up as times new roman instead of Ubuntu font. Is there any way to reset the fonts in Ubuntu and Chrome? I want to use the ...
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How do I fix Google Earth 6.2.2 theme and fonts in 12.04?
Here is the problem.
I would like to know how to get Google Earth using better fonts with anti-aliasing for English and Japanese. Don't know what these fonts are but they are hideous and completely ...
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Harf Buzz was implemented?
One of the new features of Gnome 3.6 is the new font render motor HarfBuzz what improve the font quality, HarfBuzz is included with Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity?
That is all
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How does Ubuntu achieve RGB subpixel rendering for Mono applications?
Distributions in the *Ubuntu ecosystem support proper RGB subpixel rendering in Mono based applications (e.g. Banshee) by default, i.e. out of the box without any additional configuration ...
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oki microline 320 turbo, printing from command line (lpr -P ML320-1TURBO) produces unreadable font
I have to use the oki microline 320 turbo dot matrix printer for many customers. It installs perfectly via the USB cable and selects the foomatic/okiibm driver and foomatic-rip filter.
When ...
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Is it possible to move font blocks in OpenType fonts?
I've received a font and it has all the Cyrillic letters in Latin-1 block, thus replacing phonetic characters. So I have to type "òåñò" to get "тест". Can it be fixed?
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Is there any possible way to copy the font-settings that I had when I used Gnome, and use them on Awesome WM?
I've just switched from Gnome to Awesome WM and my font settings disappeared (except the settings from .Xresource, but most of the programs don't use it anyway).
Is there any possible way to copy the ...
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How to make Window Title font upper-case?
I would like to know if it is possible to make it so that the window title font in Ubuntu is always displayed as uppercase. For the font I want to use, lowercase does not look nice. Thank you!
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How to solve font distortion in Chromium?
I am using Chromium 18 on Ubuntu 12.04 (18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1). When I open websites with it, sometimes the fonts get distorted like on the picture attached. I could not find a ...
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Boot screen and console scrambled/bad fonts
i have nvidia sound card system works ok but while booting and in console (ctrl+alt+f1) i have bad fonts/scrambled text as this:
I have tried both nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates ...
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Chrome or Chromium browsers renders pixelated Google Fonts
I am a web developer and use Google Fonts intensively for creating web pages.
Just wondering why Chrome or Chromium browsers render Google Fonts from http://www.google.com/webfonts poorly/pixeladed ...
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Fonts look bad in Microsoft Office using Wine
Office fonts in wine look very different from what they look in Windows or LibreOffice.
As can be seen from the attached screenshots, they look blurry in some sizes and aliased in other sizes. You ...
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Use Roboto font in Gimp
I have installed Gimp on Ubuntu 12.04, now I wish to use the Roboto font is Gimp. I reached this blog on how to install Roboto font on Ubuntu 11.10.
But I am happy with the default font for all other ...
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I think a change happened in my fonts after installing a KDE application !
Once,I've uninstalled my ubuntu 13.04 because I think it hadn't the ubuntu nice fonts which u see in first ubuntu starting. Now, I noticed after installing Okular, a KDE application I see the same ...
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Package jamming up software center
I tried to install some fonts via software center. Specifically ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
It has been spinning - applying changes - for 25 minutes.
Is this OK?
If not - how do I kill it without ...
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Installed Winetricks and Facebook font got messed up
I installed Winetricks on Ubuntu 12.10 and as you know, it comes with some Windows fonts. I don't know what messed up the Facebook font.
It appears like a fixed-width font. I've checked the fonts ...
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How can I back to 12.10 fonts
The ratio of fonts isn't very good in 13.04. I mean when I open a webpage like Facebook which is(in my case) in both language of Persian & English, the font size is smaller for Persian than ...
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Font alias for remote X server connection
I am connecting to remote server to launch an X application (qmon).
After I type ssh myserver -X and launch the application, I get the following error:
Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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Letter-spacing in gnome-terminal
After update to 13.04 have broken fonts in gnome terminal:
It is "Ubuntu Mono 13" font, but same spacing problems occurs with any monospace font.
What can I do?
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How to change the Chromium font in Ubuntu 12.10?
The font in chromium 12.10 is really ugly (you can especially see it on facebook).
How can I get a ClearType like font?
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Fonts are missing on fresh boot
When I boot my ubuntu studio 12.10 i sometimes experience that fonts are missing. Clearing the font cache and executing fc-cache solves it but I have to do it all the time.
Also I get a warning about ...
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Restoring default fonts
I tried copying my fonts (mostly TTF files) backups (including fonts used in Windows, odf etc) to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and run sudo fc-cache -fv. But this corrupted my Gimp Installation. ...
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Rendering on Indian languages
I want to know how the rendering is done in Indian languages. What are the programming languages used and what are the libraries used for rendering in ubuntu12.04 and in editors such as gedit.
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Hodgepodge Font Problem
I did something wrong and I don't what's that, but it has caused hodgepodge fonts. In some websites such as blogger dynamic views, the problem occurs. Please see the link.
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font is not displayed normally
I have a clean install of xubuntu, on top of which I've installed gnome-shell.
nov the font doesn't get rendered normally as you can see in the picture below
link to the full size image
any ideas ...
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How to fix blurry font in Gnome Boxes Windows 7 virtual machine?
So I am currently installing Windows 7 inside gnome-boxes from an iso file.
This seems to be running fine, but the refresh rate seems to lack a bit, and also the font's are blurry, how can I fix ...
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How can I change panel font color to white and change background on Ubuntu 12.10 (unity)?
Hy guys.
I've been looking for this on 12.10 version, but I just found for 11.10 tutorials.
I use radiance theme, and used Ubuntu-tweak to make the panel less opacity, but the font is black and now ...
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firefox displays different font after updating ubuntu
I just updated ubuntu and now the font diplayed on webpage by firefox has changed (in yahoo mail for example, or in worpress sites), it is not the original font.
How to restore it ?
Ubuntu 12.10
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problem running tgif in ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
I have installed tgif via synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. When I tried to run tgif from the terminal I got the following error message:
"Fatal Error in OpenFont(): Cannot open the ...
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Setting font for app using gtk 1.2.10
I have an old application that is compiled with gtk and glib version 1.2.10. I cannot change this. I've been running it on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS for a few months now without any real issues. The other ...
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Some files could not been downloaded
I am getting an error every time I boot up Kubuntu,it says(translated):
The following packages tried to download aditional data after installation,but the data could not been downloaded or ...
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Can Evolution always use the same font/colour when starting a new email?
When I start to write a new email, using Evolution, I must manually change the font I want to use and its colour. Is there a way to set the default text format ?
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reset fonts ubuntu 12.10
I installed mscorefont on my ubuntu 12.10 to change the facebook font on google chrome
It's too fuzzy and I don't like it
how can I reset my fonts to the default
or if there's any way to adjust my ...
