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Re: Why are my fonts broken?
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:01:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> Check out: <URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html>. It's Nov '99,
> so pretty recent.

Ahh, many thanks.  Things are much improved now.  Not perfect yet, but no
longer incredibly painful to try to read.


> 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.

Things seem to be working okie-dokie for me in Netscape Navigator except for
one big thing:  It insists on always rendering TrueType fonts at 12 pt.  :-(

Have you been able to get TrueType fonts to display at arbitrary sized under
Netscape Navigator?

I did install Mozilla M12 last night, and fonts render wonderfully there, but
I didn't find the actual browser itself seriously usable yet.  I guess I'll
just live with NN at 12 for now.

--Todd



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  Re: Why are my fonts broken?
 
(...) No, it's broken that way. If you change the font size to bigger manually, it goes and changes it back. I wonder though about the advice in the howto -- you can probably change what 12pt _is_. (...) I'd recommend getting a daily build (or the (...) (27 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Check out: <URL:(URL). 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 (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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