Subject: Re: fonts
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 12:29:10 MST
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 01:06, you wrote:
> 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 ?
>
Try this site ;-)
http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttfonts.html#MSFONTS
> 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 ?
>
The important line in FontPath is :
FontPath "unix/:7100"
The other FontPath lines are only essential if your X server complains about
certain fonts not being found, e.g. 'fixed'. You don't need the TrueType path
as a FontPath entry.
BTW, There was an error in my original post. The location of the XF86Config-4
is not /etc but /etc/X11
> I'm not sure about startx. How do I know if I use it ?
>
If you have a graphical login at bootup, then you don't use xdm, kdm or gdm.
In that case, you don't need to update startx (it doesn't hurt to do so
though)
> So much questions...
:P
>
> Thank you for all the replies.
>
You're welcome!
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
> 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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