Removing a font in Mandrake 8.0

[eXtremist]

I'm having trouble with the fonts in some of my programs, and I think I tracked it down..

Most of my font settings use the font HELVETICA, of which I have 3 versions..

I have helvetica (adobe), helvetica (mdk) and helvetica (urw). The adobe version and urw version seem to be fine, but the mdk version can only be scaled at 8 or 10 points. Therefore, when I go to a webpage that uses a font size larger, the fonts become broken and pixelated somewhat.

The other helvetica fonts scale up to 72 with no problem, and these are the ones I want to use for everything. Yet, when I specify helvetica, it always assumes the mdk version. I want to remove that font so it will not use it anymore, because the other ones are better..

Anyone follow me here? Anyone know how to do this? I found a bunch of font files, but they have cryptic names, and are of no help (to me anyways)..

Or, if anyone has a better solution, like a way for mandrake to use the OTHER helvetica fonts as default, I'd like to hear that.

Thanks

[eXtremist]

Anyone?

[Malakin]

run the mandrake control center icon on the desktop, the font stuff is under system->fonts.

[eXtremist]

yea, I did that.. Only thing is, there are about 55 helvetic font files listed.. Seein how I have many versions of this font, I don't know which is which..

[Malakin]

Does your copy look like this? http://malakin.dyn.dhs.org/fonts.png

If not then maybe I upgraded something that effected it but it looks really simple to use to me :)

[eXtremist]

hey idealego..

My drakfont looks exactly like that, but have you tried removing that font? It's easy if you only want to look at it, but it's not easy to figure out which one to remove..!!!!!

[Malakin]

If you're having troubles with the names and say you wanted to delete the mdk font helvetica, which is the only mdk font go to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk" and "cat fonts.dir" will show you full font names for the files.

I told mandrake to import some windows fonts once, ended up screwing up things a lot more then improving anything so I had a little practice removing fonts :)

[eXtremist]

thanks dude.. I imported a lot of fonts, but never had to remove any.. I have 3 versions of helvetica on my system, and they're all scalable except the MDK one! For some reason, when a program uses helvetica, it chooses the MDK one, which looks like crap.

Anyways, I'll use your info to figure the rest out, thanks!