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Re: Why are my fonts broken?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:11:45 GMT
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The RH shot looks correct. That's what I'm used to.
KL
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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:
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> http://www.fibblesnork.com/temp/fontglarp/
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> On the left is how I want it to look, on the right is how it looks now. Both
> are default installations.
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> 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!)
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> 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! :-(
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> Any hints/tips/pointers greatly appreciated.
>
> --Todd
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