Subject: Re: fonts
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 11:06:17 MST
Hrm, not so easy as it looks at first. :-(
You suggested to download Areal, Verdana, Courrier and Times. Well, all
but Verdana are only available for Win 9x/NT and MacOS, not for Win 3.11.
What now ?
Also, I use gdm. After some investigation, I found a config file for gdm
that had a similar line as the Xservers file, and added the dpi 96 stuff
there. That seems to work.
I looked at the fontpath you gave me, but it doesn't contain the
directory in which I installed de new fonts (the one you suggested). Is
that intentionally, or by accident ?
I'm not sure about startx. How do I know if I use it ?
So much questions...
Thank you for all the replies.
Geert
Avinash Gupta wrote:
> You should get the Windows 3.1 fonts. Even though they are .exe files, they
> are really zip files in disguise. You can put all the .exe files in one
> directory, rename all of them to .zip and then use 'unzip' on each of them.
> Make sure to delete the original zip files AND TO RENAME THE RESULTING .TTF
> FILES TO lowercase. You can find a bash script to do this here:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#LOWERCASE
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
>
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 11:52, you wrote:
>
>>Thank you for the fast reply.
>>
>>I have one more question: which fonts should I download ? The fonts for
>>NT, 3.11 or MacOS ?
>>
>>I noticed that the windows sets are selfinstalling, so I suspect that
>>the Mac OS set is the best ?
>>
>>If that is true, then how can I expand the downloaded sets ? They are in
>>.bin.hqx format. Is there a utility in linux for this, or should I go
>>back to MacOS for that ?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>Geert
>>
>>Avinash Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>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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