Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:48:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Font problem with KDE rendering <H1> text Message-ID: <200306191948.05453.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030620023305.GB52638@nebcorp.com> References: <20030620023305.GB52638@nebcorp.com>
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:33 pm, Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent wrote: > Hello, I've recently begun experiencing a very strange > phenomenon. My browser, Konqueror based on KDE 3.1.2, does not render > text that is enclosed in <H1> tags; instead, it presents a series of > small boxes. Copying the "boxes" to the clipboard and pasting them to > an xterm reveals the letters they are replacing. This only happens with > <H1>-tagged text. > I've not changed any of my font settings in Konqueror. This > problem persisted across a quick upgrade from KDE 3.1.1a to 3.1.2, but > did not appear until two days ago, when I likely upgraded one of the > X-related packages (flurry of upgrades preceeded). Here are my X > packages: > > XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_1 > XFree86-Server-4.3.0_8 > XFree86-clients-4.3.0_2 > XFree86-documents-4.3.0 > XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 > XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 > XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 > XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 > Xft-2.1.2 > > I hope that someone has some insight into this very bizarre, > subtle problem. Thank you, and have a good day. > There was a problem with an old version of XFree86-Server deleting the fonts during the deinstall that XFree86-libraries had just installed. Try reinstalling XFree86-libraries. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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