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Why are my fonts broken?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 05:45:16 GMT
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Anyone know how to make Netscape Navigator display the font sizes correctly
under Red Hat Linux 6.1 + Gnome? What looks great under Windoze 95 comes out
looking like scrap under my installation of RHL... :-( Here are a couple
screenshots:
http://www.fibblesnork.com/temp/fontglarp/
On the left is how I want it to look, on the right is how it looks now. Both
are default installations.
I suspect that first, I need to find an XFree86-compatible font server which
renders TrueType fonts[1], so that fonts become readable. (The garbage Adobe
and URW fonts installed by default are hinted so poorly that they're a wicked
eyesore -- Times on a web page looks even worse under my installation of RHL
than it does under a default OS9 installation on a Mac!)
I also wonder if maybe there's some system-wide font scaling problem --
something I don't have set up correctly. Because the funny thing is, if I
go into the Fonts section of Navigator's Preferences and set the font sizes
larger, it only seems to have an effect on the default variable-width and
fixed-width fonts (i.e. Times and Courier), but things like Verdana inside
the <FONT> tag still stay wicked small! :-(
Any hints/tips/pointers greatly appreciated.
--Todd
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 | | Re: Why are my fonts broken?
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| (...) Yes, this is true. Or some more Type 1 fonts. (...) The problem is that there's very few scalable fonts installed. So it's making do with bitmapped ones, which it can't actually scale. Sometimes it pretends to scale bitmapped fonts, but that (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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