Installation of bitmap fonts does not work

[Stéphane Magnenat]

Binary package hint: kcontrol

Installation of bitmap fonts does not work. If I try to install konsole bitmap fonts, either directly from konsole or by hand, it results in fonts not being installed. When I try again to install them in fonts:/Personal, it asks me wether I want to overwrite old font.pcf of size 0 bytes. I've tried to gunziped the font the result is the same.

Thanks,

Steph

[Krzysztof Lichota (krzysiek-launchpad-ubuntu-com)]

I have exactly the same problem. Version: Kubuntu Dapper with KDE 3.5.5 from kubuntu.org. But as far as I remember, it also happened with default KDE from Kubuntu Dapper.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

is this still a problem with gutsy?

[Pornografitti (pornografitti)]

yep!

[Jukka Alasalmi (jualasal)]

By doing some googling, I was able to find a workaround. By default the bitmap fonts are disabled, so you need to run these two commands:

1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
Answer the questions, and specifically, answer yes to the question about enabling bitmap fonts.

2) sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
This will update the font cache etc., and at least for me, the bitmap fonts became immediately available after starting new programs. There was a minor, easily solvable side-effect, though: firefox by default uses fonts like helvetica, times etc., which happen to be bitmap fonts. Just go to the preferences, and change these to some scalable fonts that you like.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Still a problem for Intrepid?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!