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Re: Why are my fonts broken?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:21:23 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.&spamless&org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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
Yes, this is true. Or some more Type 1 fonts.
> 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! :-(
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 only makes it worse.
I've always solved the problem by setting up TrueType.
Mozilla seems to cope with this whole issue better, but I haven't
investigated what it's doing differently.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Do you have any URLs/pointers/tips/Howto's on this? I didn't see anything in the RHL docs or online. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing. Any magic keywords? :) I did find a Mini-Howto on TrueType with XFree86[1] but it seems to be a bit (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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: (URL) the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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