On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:20, Demosthenes wrote:
> jan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > on some websites, the letters, or the whole text if you want,
> > looks strange on my MD 8.0 system. It seems as if all the letters
> > are on a different level of height in one line.
> > ( seen from far away, it looks for me as if they always go up and
> > down. ) I have this problem with all browsers, konqueror, netscape
> > and mozilla. It happend from one day to the other, I didnt make
> > any changes at the font library or sth. like that.
> >
> > What might that be?
> >
> > Thx Jan
>
> I saved the following post from when I had the same problem. Heres
> the output:
>
>
> One of my pet peeves was the font quality on Linux
> (Mandrake in
> particular). I had already tried a number of things
> but the replies to the
> above thread filled in some missing pieces. Here is
> what I hope is a one
> stop solution. Here goes:
>
> 1. If you have AbiSuite trash it or the fonts only if
> you can (I hear the
> latest version might not crap out the fonts)
>
> 2. You have to prevent unscalable fonts from being
> scalled
> As root rename the following directories from:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> to:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> This will limit your choice of sizes to the ones that
> look ok
>
> 3. Download True Type fonts to replace the others (If
> you have Windows on
> the machine. If not you will have to bring them in
> manualy)
> As root go to:
> Menu->Configuration->Other->DrakeFont
> use the Get Windows Fonts button to bring up a dialog.
> Load in all the TT fonts
>
> 3. Configure your machine to use the TT fonts.
> ControlCenter->LookNFeel->Fonts
> Select TT fonts for your display. I used Arial,
> Courier New, Frankelin
> Gothic Book TT fonts for the desktop, menu etc.....
>
> 4. If your video card supports the RENDER extension
> you can turn on
> anti-alliassing ( I do not have it on & it still looks
> ok. Just a tad
> rough on the larger TT fonts)
> ControlCenter->LookNFeel->Style - check these boxes
> -Apply fonts & Colors to non KDE Apps
> -Use Anti-Allissing
>
> 5. Configure your apps to use the TT fonts.
> For Konqueror I used Frankelin Gothic Book for the
> default and Arial and
> Courier New for Others. There is also Times New Roman
> etc.......
>
> 6. Use TT fonts in your word processing documents. I
> made a test document
> with TT arial fonts from size 8 to 72 and they all
> looked great.
>
> Let me know if there is any other feedback - hints
The best thing to do is to edit your /etc/X11/fs/Config file. The font
loading order is specified in the "catalogue" section. You can change
things here instead of renaming directories (which can screw up the
RPM database when it comes to upgrading or uninstalling).
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
