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Article #1171Re: help me with my Linux fonts
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:25
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 RedHat Linux release 7.0 Kernel 2.216-22 http://beginnerslinux.org http://beginnerslinux.saxen.net 12:18pm up 1 day, 13:38, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.10
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,b15225409050bdc8 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-29 03:23:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!212.100.160.124.MISMATCH!feed1.news.be.easynet.net!news.be.easynet.net!linuxstart!repo From: repo @NOSPAMbeginnerslinux.org Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux Subject: Re: help me with my Linux fonts Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:25:09 +0100 Organization: [ posted via Easynet Belgium ] Lines: 51 Message-ID: <92hs6k$2kac$1@rivage.news.be.easynet.net> References: <39d118a7_3@newsa.ev1.net><t4o6n7coqjp8ae@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212-100-181-15.adsl.easynet.be X-Trace: rivage.news.be.easynet.net 978088980 86348 212.100.181.15 (29 Dec 2000 11:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Dec 2000 11:23:00 GMT X-Newsreader: Pan 0.7.5