Re: [LI] Font smoothing

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxx>]

Correct
I use xfstt and in X I enjoy verdana.ttf for Web pages in Netscape and
chicago.ttf for WindowMaker menus :)
find xfstt on freshmeat/metalab.unc.edu and its all easy to set it up


----- Original Message -----
From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] Font smoothing


> On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Wooden Knight wrote:
> > I'm new so be gentle.
> >
> > Installed Linux 6.01. Installed GNOME. Worked on Netscape Comm 4.61. But
the
> > fonts are waaaaaay too jagged. Soon as "-1" directive comes in, the
display
> > goes berserk. It's 100% UNreadable in "-2" (if you know your HTML,
you'll
> > understand I'm speaking of reducing the font size). If I increase the
font
> > size, the default size is becomes too bulky for easy reading... GAWD!
I'm
> > gowin craizee! BTW, I don't care about any other application since I'm
using
> > this system only for web-browsing.
>
> One way to fix this is to go to Edit->Preferences->Fonts and
> select non-scalable fonts and disable scaling. Also in your
/etc/XF86Config
> have
>
> FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>
> If you want to use some nice fonts, a good alternative is to use the TTF
font
> servers. Read the archives for more discussion on that.
>
> I've found that freetype (http://www.freetype.org) based font servers are
> good for most cases, however, the fonts are still not readable at very
> low sizes. I don't know if this is because of freetype being bad at small
> sizes or some undesirable interaction between X and freetype.
>
> -Arun
>
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