On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:11, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one > of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. > > Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I > noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to > it listing "Lucida" in the fonts pref list, which I have as a PCF font. It > seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not > anti-aliased. > > An example would be: > > <font face="Tahoma, Lucida, Helvetica" size="+2"><b>This text isn't > anti-aliased!</b></font> > > (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF fonts > when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. > This would be Question #1). > > I use gnome (2.4), so I pulled up my font list to discover that "Lucida" > was a PCF font. I also saw that I had LucidaBright and LucidaTypewriter, > also PCF fonts. It occurred to me that maybe I could get the TTF "Lucida > Sans" font and put it on here. If so, Question #2 is: is there a way to > have X always substitute a font... in this case, Lucida Sans for any call > for "Lucida"? I would assume flat out turning off PCF fonts would be a Bad > Idea. > > The plot thickens though. I launch OpenOffice 1.1 and guess what? I see > "Lucidasans", "Lucidabright", and "Lucidatypewriter" as VECTOR FONTS! > Truly they are working, as I tried applying them to some sample text and > made the point size huge. Yet these same fonts don't appear in AbiWord. So > question #3 is: What gives? Where's this Lucidasans vector font coming > from? How can I make it available to other apps, like Firebird and > AbiWord? And how can I make it get used before the PCF Lucida? > > I know the page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html > > ...but it doesn't go this deep.
Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Joe > > Any insight or help appreciated... thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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