Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?
Go to: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Besides all the other problems I've been having with this > unreliable piece of crap called Netscape (Communicator), > I'm having problem with fonts that are scaled to a size > where they are extremely blocky. > > What is strange is that if I change the font size preferences, > the blocky fonts don't change at all. > > For example on http://www.etrade.com/, the text of the > left-hand list of links (e.g., Stocks & Optinos, IPOs, etc.) > shows up in a very blocky font. (Everything else on the > page shows up cleanly.) > > Changing either (or both) of the variable-width and > fixed-width fonts sizes affects _nothing_ on that > page. > > I thought that those settings set the screen font size to > use to display default-sized (, I think) HTML > fonts, AND also adjusted the screen font sizes to use to > display shrunken (e.g., ) and enlarged (e.g., > ) HTML fonts. (That is, fonts shrunk from > the default were displayed with a larger screen font, but > it was still smaller than the now-larger screen font used > for default-sized HTML text.) > > (This is currently with Communicator 4.08, but 4.61 and > 4.51 seemed to be the same.) > > Are web sites increasingly screwing around with fonts in > non-standard ways, or is something screwed up (or just not > loaded right) on my machine? > > I think I have the normal X11 fonts installed on my system. > Should that be enough? > > Or do I need special fonts? Do I need xfs? > > Is there anything else I need (besides an H-bomb to remove > a number of these computer-related frustrations from my > environment)? > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy > http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi ) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?
Daniel Barclay wrote: > Changing either (or both) of the variable-width and > fixed-width fonts sizes affects _nothing_ on that > page. __ This is likely a couple of problems. One is that you should have an xfont server installed "xfs" and the other may be what is the arrangement of availability in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. It is also helpful if you install truetype fonts and a truetype font server "xfstt". Take a look at this site. http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Here is a view of the font pats from my /etc/X11/XF86Config file; Section "Files" RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" Fontpath "unix/:7101" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont" Fontpath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont" The order of placement is IMPORTANT. Note Unscaled first. and higher dpi first. Good Luck! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Is there anything else I need (besides an H-bomb to remove > a number of these computer-related frustrations from my > environment)? I had a similar problem on some web pages but this fixed it in Netscape preferences fonts I check the box "use my fonts, overiding document specific fonts" I hope it helps. ---Gareth
poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?
Besides all the other problems I've been having with this unreliable piece of crap called Netscape (Communicator), I'm having problem with fonts that are scaled to a size where they are extremely blocky. What is strange is that if I change the font size preferences, the blocky fonts don't change at all. For example on http://www.etrade.com/, the text of the left-hand list of links (e.g., Stocks & Optinos, IPOs, etc.) shows up in a very blocky font. (Everything else on the page shows up cleanly.) Changing either (or both) of the variable-width and fixed-width fonts sizes affects _nothing_ on that page. I thought that those settings set the screen font size to use to display default-sized (, I think) HTML fonts, AND also adjusted the screen font sizes to use to display shrunken (e.g., ) and enlarged (e.g., ) HTML fonts. (That is, fonts shrunk from the default were displayed with a larger screen font, but it was still smaller than the now-larger screen font used for default-sized HTML text.) (This is currently with Communicator 4.08, but 4.61 and 4.51 seemed to be the same.) Are web sites increasingly screwing around with fonts in non-standard ways, or is something screwed up (or just not loaded right) on my machine? I think I have the normal X11 fonts installed on my system. Should that be enough? Or do I need special fonts? Do I need xfs? Is there anything else I need (besides an H-bomb to remove a number of these computer-related frustrations from my environment)? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
