Members faced display bitmap fonts in almost all graphics applications. In particular, the use of such fonts as Terminus and ucs-miscfixed became impossible in the GNOME terminal emulator. The problem is caused by the developers of the library , used to draw the text, support for such fonts in the latest version , referring to the problematic interfaces of the FreeType library (switched from FreeType to the rendering engine , which does not support bitmap fonts).
There are two options for solving the problem:
- monitors with a high pixel density (Hi-DPI), as they do not have problems displaying fonts.
- Using various utilities, for example, to convert such fonts to a new format that Pango can understand. In this case, there are serious problems, including with .
There is also a third option - downgrading the library version or building its previous version from source, which can be difficult for most users.
Source: opennet.ru