Re: fonts


Subject: Re: fonts
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 09:05:22 MST


Oops! Forgot to mention a few things:

Add Steps:

2a - Change directory to usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and run
        ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
        mkfontdir

Sorry!

-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 10:52, you wrote:
> 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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