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Re: Fonts in X

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From: Garry Cooper
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00
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tom minchin wrote in message <76qa7e$vdj$1@black.interact.net.au>...
>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.

How did you do this???
>
>tom@interact.net.au

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