[arch-general] Missing fonts in KeePass

[Sadika Sumanapala]

> 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.

First I'm extremely sorry for taking long time to reply.
I've tried all three methods but no success. After I install fontconfig-git
all the fonts on chromium browsers tabs and address bar changes to some
kind of dots.



On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:15 PM, "P. A. López-Valencia" <vorbote at outlook.com
> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> --
> Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
> http://about.me/palopezv/
>
> Every nation gets the government it deserves. -- Joseph de Maistre
>