On 2008/02/11 00:08 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: > On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:38:14 -0500
> Felix Miata wrote: >> On 2008/02/10 11:35 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web >> No distro I'm aware of installs them by default. There is no M$ >> software available for Linux that will automatically install them as >> on a Mac. As a result, you can't expect them to be installed on Linux. > Agreed to a certain point. Mint may install the core font set by > default. Mint's selling point is extras, but it's hardly dominating the established base of Linux systems. Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE & others have been around a lot longer, and they don't. >> No need to take my word for it. See for yourself what can happen when >> CSS specifies Helvetica on Linux: >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-072.png >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-096.png >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-120.png >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linux-144.png >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/font-helvetica-linuxmdv2005-096.png >> All the above were shot on SUSE a couple years ago, but results were >> essentially the same on other distros, including Fedora and Mandriva. > I went back as far as i could for this test (Mozilla1.6 on Mandrake10.0 > circa 2004). > http://www.comptutor.org/mytest/font-test-helvetica.html > http://www.comptutor.org/mytest/images/mozilla-helvetica.png > Looks to me like your test was possibly reverting to a default > bitmap system font because Helvetica was not installed. If you do a closer analysis of your own test, examine under the covers of Mandrake 10 (/etc/fonts/fonts.conf), and study the updated http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-helvetica.html I think you'll find what looks like and you thought was Helvetica is in fact Nimbus Sans L via fontconfig aliasing. -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
