[arch-general] Missing fonts in KeePass

["P. A. López-Valencia"]

On 11/12/14 13:44, Sadika Sumanapala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone using KeePass missing/not showing fonts? There are missing
> fonts in some dialog boxes (file open dialog, font dialog :)

The latest gsfonts package contains fonts with different names to the 
ones used previously for almost 15 years. You can blame URW for the 
changes. But there are two little known facts:

1.) The new gsfonts are new insofar as Ghostscript.com (a.k.a. Artifex) 
commissioned and obtained those new and far better made fonts about four 
years ago but only managed to place them in a git repository sometime 
middle of this passing year.

2.) The old fonts used in most linux distros are a piece of c*p 
butchered with some incredible amateur cyrillic glyphs by using an early 
version of fontforge (which, at the time, was another p.o.s.). No one in 
his/her right mind would use those fonts (the reason why TeXLive 
includes its own private copy of the original unmodified URW fonts, sad 
it is the older versions yet).

Now, to solving your problem. Fontconfig substitutes the core 35 fonts 
as reinterpreted  by Microsoft (Times NR, Arial, Symbol MT) with the 
fonts in the gsfonts package and presently that is broken. You can fix 
it by:

A.) Installing fontconfig-git from the AUR.

B.) Install ttf-ms-fonts as already mentioned in this thread.

C.) Do both. And while at it install ttf-carlito and ttf-caladea to 
replace Calibri and Cambria in all those Office 2007/2010/2013 documents 
out there.

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