On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:18, Scott I. Remick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > >> 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. > > Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't miss that section, but I > can't see how it helps me here. Maybe you can let me know what I'm missing. > > Going through those instructions: > > I don't have a ~/.fonts/ directory, and I've looked through > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for *[Ll][Uu][Cc]* as well as examined all the > font descriptions in the various font.dir files and found no non-PCF > Lucida font mentioned. > > Tweaking which fonts are anti-aliased seems not the answer as what I read > says that bitmap fonts like PCF cannot be anti-aliased. So the editing of > fonts-conf to control this isn't applicable. (note: that site talks about > editing that file, yet when you open it, it says at the very top to NOT > edit it). > > Running fc-cache -f does not make these vector Lucida fonts visible to > AbiWord. > > Changing the point size at which fonts are anti-aliased, or the spacing, > isn't applicable to my problems. > > And finally, I already have bitstream-vera installed. > > If the answer to my problem (or any of my 3 questions) is indeed on that > web page, then I guess I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing it. Sorry :(
Look at the section about modifying local.conf or .fonts.conf to do font family substitution. The example I gave is Helvetica, but you can modify it to work with Lucida as well. The section starts with: "Certain fonts, such as Helvetica, may have a problem when anti-aliased. Usually this manifests itself as a font that seems cut in half vertically. At worst, it may cause applications such as Mozilla to crash. To avoid this, consider adding the following to local.conf:" Joe > > _______________________________________________ > [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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