Google Earth's Fonts Looking Bad

[Francisco_PR]

I checked this first and found nothing, so I guess it's not a widespread issue. Contrary to Fedora 9 64bit, I was able to install and run google earth in F10 64 bit by means of dangermouse's remarkable tool (thanks by the way dangermouse, you deserve a beer ). The only problem I found so far are its horrible, almost unreadable fonts , specially in the control panel at left but really in general. I found no way to adjust font settings in google earth itself. I have installed additional system fonts such as bitstream and dejavu, to no avail. So any hint as to how to improve these fonts is appreciated.

[Dr.Diesel]

Same here, see attached. F10_64.

[Dangermouse]

Hi it sounds like you havent intalled graphics drivers and not got opengl/directrendering working.

[leigh123linux]

Run qtconfig-qt4 as non-root and select 12 for font size then save and exit

qtconfig-qt4

[Dangermouse]

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

Run qtconfig-qt4 as non-root and select 12 for font size then save and exit

qtconfig-qt4

Evening Leigh

didnt think of that

[Francisco_PR]

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

Run qtconfig-qt4 as non-root and select 12 for font size then save and exit

qtconfig-qt4

Nice tool, thanks leigh. Unfortunately, it didn't work . I even tried changing the font size to 16 and found no improvement . Any other suggestions? Meanwhile, I will keep checking those settings. I don't know if being this a 64bit F10 machine running a 32bit program has something to do with it .

[Dangermouse]

Its nothing to do with 64 or 32 bit as its the same on both for me (bump)

[Francisco_PR]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Its nothing to do with 64 or 32 bit as its the same on both for me (bump)

Thanks Dangermouse. And by the way I forgot to respond your previous suggestion. Yes I have the graphic drivers working with compiz, etc.

[Dangermouse]

I tried install msstcorefonts didnt do anything,
so i gave up and edited the config file and changed the font size to 12, not perfect but atleast its readable for me
as normal user in terminal

gedit ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf

and change size

[General]
AnimSpeed=1
CachePath=/home/Dangermouse/.googleearth/Cache
ClampBegin=false
ControllerEnabled=false
ControllerMode=2
InvertMouseWheel=false
KMLPath=/home/Dangermouse/.googleearth
Key="uTIaDAFsS3w="
LogoutClean=true
NavigatorShow=0
PolyEditXPos=68
PolyEditYPos=71
RepeatMode=1
ReverseControls=false
SMode=true
SwoopEnabled=true
TimeFolderRestrict=false
TimeShow=1
TimeZoneHours=0
TimeZoneMinutes=0
TimeZoneMode=1
TimeZoneName=Local
UID="IrqabmHex23qCACZ97i1ZA=="
UsageStats=false
VID="AAAADTQuMy43Mjg0LjM5MTY="
adsDisabled=false
buildingHighlight=true
currentVersion=4.3.7284.3916
defaultBrowser=true
emailProvider=0
enableTips=true
hiddenWindows-4_3=@Invalid()
kmlErrorHandling=0
lastHeight=826
lastLeft=0
lastTip=8
lastTop=25
lastWidth=1434
layersOpen=true
mouseWheelSpeed=1
osName=Linux
placesOpen=true
renderWarning-OGLsoftwareEmulated=false
searchOpen=true
shown_GPS=false
shown_LeftPanel=true
shown_RenderFrame=true
shown_Ruler=false
tooltips=true
visibleWindows-4_3=RenderWindow, ServerWindow
wasFullScreen=false
wasMaximized=false

[Cache]
DiskCacheSize=2000
MemoryCacheSize=448

[Layer]
FlySpeed=0.171
drivingDirectionsRange=1000
drivingDirectionsSpeed=150
drivingDirectionsTilt=45
pauseTime=1.6
tourBalloonShow=false
tourCycles=1
tourSpeed=0.171

[Render]
AnisotropicFiltering=0
CompassVisible=true
DisableAdvancedFeatures=false
ElevationExaggeration=1
FeetMiles=true
GridReference=0
GuiFontFamily=Arial
GuiFontSize=12
GuiFontStyle=0
GuiFontWeight=50
IconSize=2
OverviewSize=34
OverviewZoom=99
PrimaryFontVersion2Family=Bitstream Charter
PrimaryFontVersion2Size=10
PrimaryFontVersion2Style=0
PrimaryFontVersion2Weight=75
RenderingApi=1
SecondaryFontVersion2Family=Bitstream Vera Sans
SecondaryFontVersion2Size=10
SecondaryFontVersion2Style=0
SecondaryFontVersion2Weight=75
TerrainQuality=1
TextureColors=1
TextureCompressionDXTC=true

[UsageStatistics]
firstRun\day=2
firstRun\hour=18
firstRun\minute=20
firstRun\month=12
firstRun\second=48
firstRun\year=2008
loginHistory=0
numRuns=7
numRunsThisVersion=7
prevRun\day=2
prevRun\hour=18
prevRun\minute=52
prevRun\month=12
prevRun\second=44
prevRun\year=2008

[autoupdate]
InstalledVersion=4.3.7284.3916

[Francisco_PR]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

I tried install msstcorefonts didnt do anything,
so i gave up and edited the config file and changed the font size to 12, not perfect but atleast its readable for me
as normal user in terminal


and change size

Wow, that's a big file . Worth trying. I will report as soon as I get back home. Thanks again .

[vinoman]

I opened the file $ gedit ~/.config/Google/GoogleEarthPlus.conf and changed the PrimaryFontVersion2Family=Bitstream vera sans , I saved it but it didn't make any difference when I opened Google Earth again. The fonts looks bad and they are very hard to read.

Until I can figure how to make the fonts look sharp and clear, I'd rather just use Google Maps online and forget Google Earth all together.

How do you fix this problem?

[doranub]

Here is my .config file and it looks presentable now.

[General]
AnimSpeed=1
CachePath=/home/davemc/.googleearth/Cache
ClampBegin=false
ControllerEnabled=false
ControllerMode=2
InvertMouseWheel=false
KMLPath=/home/davemc/.googleearth
Key="Qke3IDHkV3A="
LogoutClean=true
NavigatorShow=0
PolyEditXPos=121
PolyEditYPos=395
RepeatMode=1
ReverseControls=false
SMode=true
SwoopEnabled=true
TimeFolderRestrict=false
TimeShow=1
TimeZoneHours=-5
TimeZoneMinutes=0
TimeZoneMode=1
TimeZoneName=Local
UID="n4kq9WzDYQe3mLKijphIXQ=="
VID="AAAADTQuMy43Mjg0LjM5MTY="
currentVersion=4.3.7284.3916
defaultBrowser=true
enableTips=true
hiddenWindows-4_3=@Invalid()
lastHeight=640
lastLeft=74
lastTip=7
lastTop=332
lastWidth=1030
layersOpen=true
mouseWheelSpeed=1
osName=Linux
placesOpen=true
renderWarning-OGLsoftwareEmulated=false
searchOpen=true
shown_GPS=false
shown_LeftPanel=true
shown_RenderFrame=true
shown_Ruler=false
visibleWindows-4_3=RenderWindow, ServerWindow
wasFullScreen=false
wasMaximized=false

[Layer]
FlySpeed=0.171
drivingDirectionsRange=1000
drivingDirectionsSpeed=150
drivingDirectionsTilt=45
pauseTime=1.6
tourBalloonShow=false
tourCycles=1
tourSpeed=0.171

[Render]
AnisotropicFiltering=0
CompassVisible=true
DisableAdvancedFeatures=false
ElevationExaggeration=1
FeetMiles=true
GridReference=0
GuiFontFamily=Bitstream vera sans
GuiFontSize=10
GuiFontStyle=0
GuiFontWeight=75
IconSize=2
OverviewSize=34
OverviewZoom=99
PrimaryFontVersion2Family=Bitstream Charter
PrimaryFontVersion2Size=10
PrimaryFontVersion2Style=0
PrimaryFontVersion2Weight=75
RenderingApi=1
SecondaryFontVersion2Family=Bitstream Vera Sans
SecondaryFontVersion2Size=10
SecondaryFontVersion2Style=0
SecondaryFontVersion2Weight=75
TerrainQuality=1
TextureColors=1
TextureCompressionDXTC=true

[UsageStatistics]
firstRun\day=13
firstRun\hour=1
firstRun\minute=34
firstRun\month=12
firstRun\second=14
firstRun\year=2008
loginHistory=0
numRuns=22
numRunsThisVersion=22
prevRun\day=26
prevRun\hour=20
prevRun\minute=44
prevRun\month=12
prevRun\second=55
prevRun\year=2008

[autoupdate]
InstalledVersion=4.3.7284.3916

[vinoman]

Thanks. it's looking better now

[Francisco_PR]

I tried both suggestions from the thread, and found Dangermouse's hint to work better for me. However, I reduced the font size from 12 to 11 instead.

[raul_chirea]

Try rename libQt*.so.4 libraries, in the google-earth installation dir, to libQt*.so.4.orig ("*" means any string). The funny thing is that Google distributes these files but, probably, they are not fit for FC10. So, renaming them makes google earth using the system ones. Try to start google earth from console and see if system complains that cannot find some other library. If it does, rename that one, too (the one in google-earth installation dir.

PS: I have FC10, but probably in FC9 is the same problem.