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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 01:13:19 GMT
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Oops! I guess I should have scrolled down before I posted!
KL
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Loch writes:
> 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:
> >
> > 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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