Re: fonts


Subject: Re: fonts
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 08:52:44 MST


You need to get some good truetype fonts. e,g, Microsoft Web fonts. You can
download them from:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm

1. Get at least the Arial, Verdana, Courier and Times fonts.

2. Put them all in a directory, e.g.
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType

        MAKE SURE ALL THE FILENAMES ARE LOWERCASE AND THERE ARE NO .fon FILES IN THE
        DIRECTORY! VERY IMPORTANT.
3. Modify /etc/XF86Config-4 and make sure FontPath looks like:

        FontPath "unix/:7100"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"

4. Modify /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config and make sure the catalogue is:

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
        /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
        /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/75dpi

5. Restart X font server
        /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

6. If you use xdm, modify /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to look like:

        :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 96

7. If you use startx, then modify /usr/bin/X11/startx and modify the line:

           xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -dpi 96

8. Start KDE and make sure Anti-aliasing is enabled in:
        Control Center->Look and Feel->Fonts

        And the Fixed Width font is Courier New

9. In Control Center->Web Browsing->Konqueror Browser->Appearance
        Make sure Minimum Font Size is 10 and Medium Font Size is 12

        Standard Font -> Arial
        Fixed Font -> Courier New
        Serif Font -> Times New Roman

Restart KDE.

Fonts should look MUCH better now ... at least they do for me!

Hope this helps.

-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)

        Fixed >
> I have installed YDL 2.1 on a beige G3 for a couple of weeks now.
>
> I am quite pleased with it.
>
> There are still a few issues I don't seem to be able to fix. I'll put
> them in separate e-mails to simplify followups.
>
> Issue #5 : fonts.
>
> It struck me that the fonts I have installed look ugly in most sizes on
> screen.
>
> Some examples:
> * I created a document in KWord. In this document I had some black
> helvetica text on a green background. When I looked at this in the print
> preview section, the black characters were surrounded by white speckles
> (I suspect they are from anti-aliasing). This looks ugly. I don't know
> for sure what it would look like on a printer, since I can't print (yet).
>
> * Some (most ?) fonts look terribly jagged in mozilla at larger sizes.
> Take for example http://www.mozilla.org/start/, then the 'Getting
> Involved with mozilla' heading looks quite poor.
>
> Is there anything I can do about this ? Do I maybe have bad fonts
> installed ? Or some settings wrong ?
>
> TIA,
> Geert Janssens



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