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Re: help me with my Linux fonts

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From: repo
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:25
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at Friday, December 29, 2000  6:05 AM,  Praetorius <praetorian@onebox.com> wrote:
> it kinda depends on what distribution you are using, but some (like SuSE) 
> have a great ttf and postscript renderer that anti-aliases fonts. However, 
> standard X11 fonts look cruddy on there own. If you goto www.freshmeat.net, 
> there's a really good font renderer called ttfserv I do believe. Mandrake 
> has it.
> 
> 
> Kevin Dunbar wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Im a Linux newbie, I just installed linux on my system.  I used
>> Netscape 4.0.  I noticed that the fonts in Netscape don't look as sharp or
>> crisp as in Microsoft window.  Is there something I can do to improve the
>> look of the fonts?   The fonts are unreadable on some websites that us
>> small fonts.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> Kevin
>> 
>> kevind159@yahoo.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

Kevin,
In your homdirectory, edit
Xdefaults
If it doesn't excist create it.
Add the following line:
Netsape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement:5

In netscape go to edit->preferences->fonts
use my default fonts, overwriting document-specified fonts

Restart X
Resart netscape


-- 
Good Luck
Repo

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