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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 23:46:39 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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
Check out: <URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html>. It's Nov '99,
so pretty recent.
It's actually got particular advice about Netscape, which I hadn't known and
am now going to go experiment with. But it seems to apply to xfstt and
doesn't say anything specific about xfs (what a terrible choice of names, by
the way), which is what Red Hat uses.
> One thing I did figure out which made me happy was that ttmkfdir is already
> installed and that the X servers shipped with RHL6.1 already supposedly have
> xfsft (or xfstt?) linked in as a font server. I just need to figure out how
> to activate it! :)
Yeah, I think that all you need to do is uncomment or add
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf" to the "catalogue" entry in
/etc/X11/fs/config.
And of course have some fonts there with the proper fonts.dir, etc.
My take is that I'm legally allowed to use the TTF fonts that I purchased
with the Win95 license for this computer. I don't see why not.
> BTW, is it [still] true that Netscape limits the font size selection to 12-
> point only with TT's? Have you gotten Verdana or other TT's to look as good
> under X as they do under Winblows?
They look fine. But the font support under Linux (and really Unix as a
whole) generally isn't on par with that for MacOS or Win32. It's definitely
one of those areas where a lot of work needs to be done. Of course, one of
the key problems is that while there are a lot of freely available TTF and
Type 1 fonts, very few of those are any good.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Ahh, many thanks. Things are much improved now. Not perfect yet, but no longer incredibly painful to try to read. (...) Things seem to be working okie-dokie for me in Netscape Navigator except for one big thing: It insists on always rendering (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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