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Article #47626Re: Fonts in X
From: tom minchin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
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Glen Turner <glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au> writes: >Stephen Reynolds wrote: > > 2) Install xfsft. Put the TTF fonts in the font path > just before the Type1 fonts. > > 3) Get the free TrueType fonts from the Microsoft web site. > Get the Bakoma TTF fonts if you look at a lot of TeX- > documents (eg: maths and physics papers). > >Even so, the results aren't as good as WinNT on the same machine. With xfsft I just copied all the TrueType fonts from my WindowsNT font directory and used those. They look great with high resolution desktops - eg 1280x1024 (where normal X11 fonts start looking jagged). Another plus is that sites that used FrontPage and use Windows fonts in their <FONT> tags look the same on a Linux platform. tom@interact.net.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c2f8290b0b241235 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: tom@black.interact.net.au (tom minchin) Subject: Re: Fonts in X Date: 1999/01/04 Message-ID: <76qa7e$vdj$1@black.interact.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 428603751 References: <369090a2.3966723@news.camtech.net.au> <3690A29F.E3A2459C@adelaide.edu.au> Organization: InterACT Technology Group http://www.interact.net.au/ Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux