[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005
I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts that look coarse. I have tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font Size kde
I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOME dictionary. In ximian, gnumeric and GNOME dictionary, this font is also used in the menus of the application ( file, edit, etc.). This leads me to believe that this is a system setting somewhere. The font settings in ximian affect the body of the email, but not the menus or email lists. Changing the font settings in Configure your desktop don't affect these applications either. Any ideas? Mark -- Mark Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Font Size kde
On Monday 23 August 2004 11:42, Mark Gibson wrote: I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOME dictionary. In ximian, gnumeric and GNOME dictionary, this font is also used in the menus of the application ( file, edit, etc.). This leads me to believe that this is a system setting somewhere. The font settings in ximian affect the body of the email, but not the menus or email lists. Changing the font settings in Configure your desktop don't affect these applications either. Any ideas? Mark Click on settingskmailappearance set the fonts for kmail as you want, as long as its between size 4 and 64. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Font Size kde
W licie z pon, 23-08-2004, godz. 20:12, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Monday 23 August 2004 11:42, Mark Gibson wrote: I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOME dictionary. In ximian, gnumeric and GNOME dictionary, this font is also used in the menus of the application ( file, edit, etc.). This leads me to believe that this is a system setting somewhere. The font settings in ximian affect the body of the email, but not the menus or email lists. Changing the font settings in Configure your desktop don't affect these applications either. Any ideas? Mark Click on settingskmailappearance set the fonts for kmail as you want, as long as its between size 4 and 64. But ximian is evolution not kmail :) Click tools/preferences/mail preferences (this is translation from my polish interface) - the third from the top - and there you can enable/disable using fonts from main kde conf setting. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Font Size kde
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 02:42, Mark Gibson wrote: I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOME dictionary. In ximian, gnumeric and GNOME dictionary, this font is also used in the menus of the application ( file, edit, etc.). This leads me to believe that this is a system setting somewhere. The font settings in ximian affect the body of the email, but not the menus or email lists. Changing the font settings in Configure your desktop don't affect these applications either. Any ideas? Mark Run: gnome-font-properties ...set the fonts as you so desire; once done, open Evolution up and click TOOLS = SETTINGS = MAIL PREFERENCES; check the font settings there, or tick the box that says Use the same fonts as other applications; this SHOULD resolve the issue for you; if it doesn't, we'll have to try something slightly more drastic...HTH -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. -- Steven Feiner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font problem
Yesterday I did a routine urpmi update - security, bugs and normal updates but did not make a note of the programs to be updated. I suppose about 30 programs in all were affected. However, everything appeared to install correctly and the update list is now empty, but the next time I fired up KDE I found ALL my KDE fonts had changed - including Kmail. Resetting everything manually took about half an hour and all seems (more or less) ok now. Has anyone else experienced this, what is the reason and how do we avoid it in future? Any pointers gratefully accepted. Thanks. -- Alan Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official A 100% Microsoft-free computer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font for Website
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts
so you have to import them
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:40, Cezary Morga wrote:
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts
so you have to import them
I really don't want to import anything from Windows. What is their
equivalent in Linux?
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
OOzy wrote: Thanks, I am downloading as I typing; however, what would happen if I move my site to a web-host? Would they have these font installed. If they don't then my site won't look good for Linux users It is not the web-host, but the machine displaying the web page that needs the fonts installed. The web server doesn't send the fonts, it just tells your web browser what fonts it should use. If the fonts are not available, it uses the system fonts... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Font for Website
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 01:31, OOzy wrote:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Install the TTF fonts into Mandrake - and you should be all set to go.
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 02:58, OOzy wrote:
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:40, Cezary Morga wrote:
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa3:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts
so you have to import them
I really don't want to import anything from Windows. What is their
equivalent in Linux?
It's only TTF fonts mate - or change your CSS from verdana and arial to
comething like courier or sans.
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:40:35PM +0200, Cezary Morga wrote:
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa?:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts
so you have to import them
I've grown to prefer not specifying font names; I just use sans-serif
and let the user decide what he/she wants to use for the sans-serif font. I don't do
anything with fonts on my box and the text on the pages I make always looks peachy.
Todd
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
I think the point trying to be made here is that you wish to specify the
fonts seen by visitors.
The only sure way I would suggest, is that you 'graphic~ize' your
content complete with 'alt' tags.
This way when your page is rendered within any browser, regardless of
OS, then visitors get to see what you want them to see.
Not very customer friendly but sometimes required.
Then by NOT specifying any font types, your visitors own browser default
fonts would be seen initially within the 'alt' tags.
The one 'hickup' with this is when visitors such as myself, prefer large
font size for visual problems. (Age, etc.)
(My own system defaults to 16 so that I may read content easily. Because
some sites specify table sizes with background images, the fonts
rendered 'overlap', and can at times make reading them awkward.)
Using images instead of text would seem to overcome this.
Remember, you cannot specify a particular font only, because it is the
visitors browser settings and type that ultimately decides that.
Hope this is of some help. If you get to host your page, let us know.
Regards
Frank
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Registered Linux User # 324213
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 02:58, OOzy wrote:
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:40, Cezary Morga wrote:
Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa3:
The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my
css?
I use the following family:
P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
small; }
Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts
so you have to import them
I really don't want to import anything from Windows. What is their
equivalent in Linux?
It's only TTF fonts mate - or change your CSS from verdana and arial to
comething like courier or sans.
stephen kuhn - proprietor
==
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a kuhn media australia company
http://kma.0catch.com
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Re: [newbie] Font for Website
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:06:23 +0300 OOzy disseminated the following: Have you imported these fonts from windows? Mandrake doesn't have this fonts so you have to import them ...more important is what font the people viewing your webpage will see. If they do not have the fonts installed which you specify, they will default, IIRC, to Helvetica or Times. Oozy, can you give us a link to your site or a shot of what you are talking about so we can see what you mean by 'not as nice as it should'? Sorry, it is not hosted yet. It is still in my local computer. May be I should try to host it. Mine's on my this very machine as well. Are you behind a firewall? If so, just forward port 80 to your machine's IP and use something like this to redirect to your internet address: http://www.no-ip.com/ If you are not behind a firewall...well, you should be ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 22:09:42 up 2 days, 3:32, 7 users, load average: 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 +++ Two different philosophies about the nature of human intellectual production are in confrontation. One of them has all the chips; the other has all the right answers. This is part of the long struggle in the history of human beings for the creation of freedom. This time, we win. -- Eben Moglen, Professor of Law Columbia University Law School, General Counsel Free Software Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font encoding of the xchat logs
Dear All I would like to know how to change the font encoding of the xchat logs, as some strange characters appear. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if one particular size looks really bad. In the file /etc/X11/Xresources, there is a section that looks like this near the end: ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. Xft.dpi: 90 I changed the 90 to the actual dpi of my moniter, which is a 125 dpi flatpanel and my fonts look a lot nicer. You can get the actual dpi of your monitor by using The Gimp, which has a monitor calibration utility in the monitor preferences. Go to File = Preferences and choose the monitor section. You will need a ruler to do the OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot384.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if one particular size looks really bad. In the file /etc/X11/Xresources, there is a section that looks like this near the end: ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. Xft.dpi: 90 I changed the 90 to the actual dpi of my moniter, which is a 125 dpi flatpanel and my fonts look a lot nicer. You can get the actual dpi of your monitor by using The Gimp, which has a monitor calibration utility in the monitor preferences. Go to File = Preferences and choose the monitor section. You will need a ruler to do the OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? John Later = OK I figured it thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot384.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if one particular size looks really bad. In the file /etc/X11/Xresources, there is a section that looks like this near the end: ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. Xft.dpi: 90 I changed the 90 to the actual dpi of my moniter, which is a 125 dpi flatpanel and my fonts look a lot nicer. You can get the actual dpi of your monitor by using The Gimp, which has a monitor calibration utility in the monitor preferences. Go to File = Preferences and choose the monitor section. You will need a ruler to do the calibration, but it is easy and could be the reason why you cannot get your fonts quite right. Yes Anne, I am putting it in the twiki. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com 140dpi here if I measured it right. Northgate Innovations 19 Flat Panel Troy 101.568x107.608 dpi on generic 17 CTR or 225x165mm John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration, (ie monitor) not print (ie via ghostscript) font mapping isn't it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration, (ie monitor) not print (ie via ghostscript) font mapping isn't it ? AFAIK, Yes. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration, (ie monitor) not print (ie via ghostscript) font mapping isn't it ? Without changing my previous answer, I'll say that this actually has improved my printed output, because in order to get decent looking fonts on screen, I was using font sizes that did not look good in printed format (too big). Now the 10 point size looks good on my screen, which is a more desireable size for printing also. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:09 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: The way I did it was to hit the calibrate, slide the little black arrow to a point that matched a measurement on my ruler and then entered those values in the boxes. Was this right? Troy I don't recall a black arrow, but each mark on the calibration bar represents 100 dots. just measured the whole thing. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if one particular size looks really bad. In the file /etc/X11/Xresources, there is a section that looks like this near the end: ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. Xft.dpi: 90 I changed the 90 to the actual dpi of my moniter, which is a 125 dpi flatpanel and my fonts look a lot nicer. You can get the actual dpi of your monitor by using The Gimp, which has a monitor calibration utility in the monitor preferences. Go to File = Preferences and choose the monitor section. You will need a ruler to do the calibration, but it is easy and could be the reason why you cannot get your fonts quite right. Yes Anne, I am putting it in the twiki. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com 140dpi here if I measured it right. Northgate Innovations 19 Flat Panel Troy 101.568x107.608 dpi on generic 17 CTR or 225x165mm John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The way I did it was to hit the calibrate, slide the little black arrow to a point that matched a measurement on my ruler and then entered those values in the boxes. Was this right? Troy I took the calibration rule as you see in snapshot.398.png and with my mm own rule measured the distance of the clibration rule in mm's for both horizontal and verticle measurement. Then I entered them in the appropriate fields with the up/down tabs. That alters the dpi. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot398.pngWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font rendering tips
I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is rendered on screen, or if one particular size looks really bad. In the file /etc/X11/Xresources, there is a section that looks like this near the end: ! Fix the Xft dpi to 96; this prevents tiny fonts ! or HUGE fonts depending on the screen size. Xft.dpi: 90 I changed the 90 to the actual dpi of my moniter, which is a 125 dpi flatpanel and my fonts look a lot nicer. You can get the actual dpi of your monitor by using The Gimp, which has a monitor calibration utility in the monitor preferences. Go to File = Preferences and choose the monitor section. You will need a ruler to do the calibration, but it is easy and could be the reason why you cannot get your fonts quite right. Yes Anne, I am putting it in the twiki. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
kword character spacing === kword sends a printfile to another printer model with correct character spacing,while the same file to my printer does not. Much later Seems this problem is font related. see, http://www.koffice.org/faq/#InprintoutKOfficereplacessomeofmyfontswithdifferentfonts I'm told, The best bet is to use another font (and to make sure your Qt is linked to Xft, and that the RENDER extension is available). Use Unicode TTF fonts, like Utopia or Verdana... Also, To make fonts printable to KOffice, the fonts in question need to be added to the ghostscript fontmap file, so ghostscript can find the fonts. This applies to TrueType as well as Type1 fonts. As KOffice doesn't necessarily use the correct ghostscript font names, it (respectively Qt) tries to guess them and sometimes fails on this task. This problem can be avoided by mapping the font names used by Qt to the correct X11 font names. See the following example how this can be done: mapping of font names in the ghostscript fontmap: (where ?) /ArialBlack-Roman /Arial_Black ; /Arnoldboecklin-Roman /ArnoldBoecklin-ExtraBold ; This problem will have to be solved within Qt; until then you will have to modify your fontmap. If you want to do this yourself, the following information might help you: So there seems to be a font mapping problem. I generally use helvetica in kword, so what on earth do I have to do to get helvetica to print off normally. All this font business is way over my head and I don't understand a word (excuse the pun)of it On the above site there is a shell script called kwdfont(which I guess once you have copied it, ought to be called kwdfont.sh) and so what do I do with it and what answers do I give when it asks me the questions ? Any help and assistance appreciated. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
kword character spacing === After some experimenting I found out, kword sends a printfile to another printer model with correct character spacing,while the same file to my printer does not. While OTOH, Mozilla sends files correctly to my printer without character spacing problems. Mozilla is called by lp -s -dZ53f, while kword uses kprinter. If the same kword file prints ok to anouther printer but not mine why is it that Mozilla has no trouble sending an identicle script to my printer ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
Charlie wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. John You haven't changed any printer settings? I don't have Kword installed, so can't help. I have always used OpenOffice.org. Charlie It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3 of these drivers are ghostscript, the 4th is a proprietary(lexmark) , and all 4 each work to a degree, and I don't have any problem with the character spacing with any other app like mozilla for instance, which I use quite often Only kword, and I think kde in general, though I might be wrong there as I haven't test it with the likes of kspread, which I gave up on some time ago as I couldn't solve it's basic problems. I like kword, it has many good features, and the developers have made it more than a word processor, so I want to make it work if I can. If the problem is with the drivers, then I don't see why it is, since other apps can use them without problems, still , even if it is with the drivers, I sure don't know where and what I am supposed to do with it. I mean the driver setting include many options, but nothing I would sort of figure have anything to do with the character spacing. If I am wrong , by all means correct me I want to learn what to do as much as the next man. I'm guessing it's a kde setup problem , but what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. John You haven't changed any printer settings? I don't have Kword installed, so can't help. I have always used OpenOffice.org. Charlie It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3 of these drivers are ghostscript, the 4th is a proprietary(lexmark) , and all 4 each work to a degree, and I don't have any problem with the character spacing with any other app like mozilla for instance, which I use quite often Only kword, and I think kde in general, though I might be wrong there as I haven't test it with the likes of kspread, which I gave up on some time ago as I couldn't solve it's basic problems. I like kword, it has many good features, and the developers have made it more than a word processor, so I want to make it work if I can. If the problem is with the drivers, then I don't see why it is, since other apps can use them without problems, still , even if it is with the drivers, I sure don't know where and what I am supposed to do with it. I mean the driver setting include many options, but nothing I would sort of figure have anything to do with the character spacing. If I am wrong , by all means correct me I want to learn what to do as much as the next man. I'm guessing it's a kde setup problem , but what ? John, you've been using kword and 9.1 for a long time. Is this a new problem? Or have you changed your printer? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3 of these drivers are ghostscript, the 4th is a proprietary(lexmark) , and all 4 each work to a degree, and I don't have any problem with the character spacing with any other app like mozilla for instance, which I use quite often Only kword, and I think kde in general, though I might be wrong there as I haven't test it with the likes of kspread, which I gave up on some time ago as I couldn't solve it's basic problems. I like kword, it has many good features, and the developers have made it more than a word processor, so I want to make it work if I can. If the problem is with the drivers, then I don't see why it is, since other apps can use them without problems, still , even if it is with the drivers, I sure don't know where and what I am supposed to do with it. I mean the driver setting include many options, but nothing I would sort of figure have anything to do with the character spacing. If I am wrong , by all means correct me I want to learn what to do as much as the next man. I'm guessing it's a kde setup problem , but what ? John, you've been using kword and 9.1 for a long time. Is this a new problem? Or have you changed your printer? Anne As you know I dual Linux boot, so while the kde printer setup failed in M9.1 I maintained and still have MD9.0 where my existing printer, Lexmark Z53, which hasn not been changed in any way, has worked with all apps flawlessly, as far as character spacing in concerned. Having got the printer to work in MD9.1, I am thinking of wiping M9.0 for MD9.2 install, but if I cannot use kword in MD9.1, then , I have to reconsider my options. It's a pain to switch word processor. It just seems daft that kword cannot print off as usual. I ain't done anything different to my knowledge, though I believe there have been some changes in the kde pre spooling arangements lately, but why should that make a difference anyway ? It leaves me thinking someone has been tampering with my Z53 drivers , but then I don't see why the drivers have much to do with it, it isn't the apps themselves that determin such matters as character and line spacing or am I wrong ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 3:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Having got the printer to work in MD9.1, I am thinking of wiping M9.0 for MD9.2 install, but if I cannot use kword in MD9.1, then , I have to reconsider my options. It's a pain to switch word processor. It just seems daft that kword cannot print off as usual. I ain't done anything different to my knowledge, though I believe there have been some changes in the kde pre spooling arangements lately, but why should that make a difference anyway ? It leaves me thinking someone has been tampering with my Z53 drivers , but then I don't see why the drivers have much to do with it, it isn't the apps themselves that determin such matters as character and line spacing or am I wrong ? John, as you know I also use kword under 9.1. If it is any help in troubleshooting, feel free to mail me a sample document that has given you problems. I'll see whether it prints OK to my printer, a DJ990. If that's so, then it is definitely the printer driver, I would say. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John I don;t think you can adjust spacing at all. Which font are you using John? I use Sans, regular, 10 pt, and everything is very easy to read. Anne I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
Mark Kirschner wrote: John asked: How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. Just did a check in Kword myself. There doesn't appear to be a way. Unfortunately, word processors (across the spectrum) seem to have dropped the ability to adjust this. Mark Have they dropped this spacing feature, that's odd , I wonder how you are supposed to cope. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 6:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. Very strange. I used to have that problem in OOWriter under 9.0, but I never use that now, so I don't know whether it's a problem in this release. I've never had it in KWord, though. Have you tried checking your printer setup, especially if it has only just started happening? I would look in printerdrake, in CUPS admin and in xpp, as each seems to be good at some things and not at others. I'd also try installing another instance of the printer, configure it slightly different from the other one, and try a new print. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:27 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: I don;t think you can adjust spacing at all. Which font are you using John? I use Sans, regular, 10 pt, and everything is very easy to read. Anne I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before. John You haven't changed any printer settings? I don't have Kword installed, so can't help. I have always used OpenOffice.org. Charlie -- Unfortunately virtue may command admiration but not always affection. anon This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1
How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font question -- Helvetica not accessible
For some reason (that I hope someone here knows), I'm getting the following messages as xsession errors: The font -*-helvetica-boldoblique-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) The font -*-helvetica-bold-r-narrow-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) The font -*-helvetica-boldoblique-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Helvetica including the iso8859-1 character set appears to be on my system, which is 9.1. I've updated the kernel to 2.4.21-25 and used drakfont to capture some of my truetype fonts from the VFAT partition, none of which were helvetica. I notice that the Help for SO6 is now messed up, as well as gnumeric and the dialog boxes for xine. What happened? How can I get that character set accessed again? Thanks, deedee __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font problem in Kword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 January 2003 11:52 am, Greg wrote: I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print those fonts correctly? I have same problem with Kword. I have chosen Century Schoolbook [Urw] 12 for my letter but after I printed the letter, it used Adobe-Helvetica 12. So, I change the default font in KDE, K Control Center Fonts General. Then, I open Kword, go to Settings, click Configure Kword and default font has changed to Century Schoolbook [Urw] 12. Perhaps, someone has better solution than me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FolZH9VEhcXPGz4RAg29AJ93XC5ypTV/eov+3OVtIYeOYNl0twCaAiUO F91z2g+6X5gv8uPhVvuri+g= =m2ir -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font problem in Kword
On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 7:11 am, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 January 2003 11:52 am, Greg wrote: I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print those fonts correctly? I have same problem with Kword. I have chosen Century Schoolbook [Urw] 12 for my letter but after I printed the letter, it used Adobe-Helvetica 12. So, I change the default font in KDE, K Control Center Fonts General. Then, I open Kword, go to Settings, click Configure Kword and default font has changed to Century Schoolbook [Urw] 12. Perhaps, someone has better solution than me. No solutions - just more questions. I'm having great problems with fonts in OpenOffice and StarOffice. I wonder if there are any guidelines as to fonts (type of or group of) that are difficult for linux apps to handle, and therefore should be avoided? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font problem in Kword
I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print those fonts correctly? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] font size in konqueror
Hmm, I'm using 3.0.3 and it enlarges even text, which size is set explicitly by a style sheet. Perhaps to you have to press multiple times the +/- buttons? On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:44, bascule wrote: is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my minimum to be 11 with a 17 crt, my eyesight can't really cope with less, however often i have to use the 'increase font size' button to be able to read! fonts and stuff always went over my head, is it just that 11 point in one font can be a lot smaller than 11 point in another? bascule -- 'They were myths and they were real,' he said loudly. 'Both a wave and a particle.' (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] font size in konqueror
is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my minimum to be 11 with a 17 crt, my eyesight can't really cope with less, however often i have to use the 'increase font size' button to be able to read! fonts and stuff always went over my head, is it just that 11 point in one font can be a lot smaller than 11 point in another? bascule -- 'They were myths and they were real,' he said loudly. 'Both a wave and a particle.' (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Font
What is the font and where did you get it from? Joeb On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:46:28 +1100 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that font back from 8.2 into 9.0? Any ideas? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Font
Hello Everyone, I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that font back from 8.2 into 9.0? Any ideas? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] font problem in wine
I'm trying to run a couple of programs under wine but the fonts are screwed up. All characters just show up as squares. Anybody seen this before or know how to fix it? -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] font viewer
On Saturday 15 December 2001 16:10, you wrote: In the DrakConf menu there is a Font Utility (I can't think of the name of it, but it might be DrakFont) that will manage your fonts and even grab Windows fonts off a Windows partition. I haven't used it personally, but I believe that you could use that to grab that font from CD. Thanks, Ivan, but that one only previews already *installed* fonts. Now if I have a cdrom with a 1000 fonts on it I suppose I could install them all, pray that the fontserver can take the load, and uninstall the ones I don't want. A font viewer for *uninstalled* fonts seems a kinder, gentler solution ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] font viewer
Thanks, Ivan, but that one only previews already *installed* fonts. Now if I have a cdrom with a 1000 fonts on it I suppose I could install them all, pray that the fontserver can take the load, and uninstall the ones I don't want. A font viewer for *uninstalled* fonts seems a kinder, gentler solution ... And while answering my own posts is a Bad Habit (tm), I can report that I have found gfontview, right there in our beloved cooker - O me of little faith!. Claims to do what I want and then some. I'll install it as soon as apt lets go of the rpm database -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?
Kwrite fonts are changed by going into the KDE control panel and modifying the defaults and/or the kongueror settings... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dr. Evil Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite? Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font and size, but that menu does not exist. Any sugestions? Is this a compiled-in thing? If so, I will definitely need to recompile it because it's basically not usable right now. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?
At 08.35 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:02, Dr. Evil wrote: Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font and size, but that menu does not exist. Any sugestions? Is this a compiled-in thing? If so, I will definitely need to recompile it because it's basically not usable right now. Thanks In Kwrite, click on Settings - Configure Editor... - Fonts. OK, but will it influence the konqueror behavior too? Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas
[newbie] Font size in Kwrite?
Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do web development. I read the Kwrite instructions, and it talks about a menu to change font and size, but that menu does not exist. Any sugestions? Is this a compiled-in thing? If so, I will definitely need to recompile it because it's basically not usable right now. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Font Questions
Jamie wrote: This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's? The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/, and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Yes, I've looked. I printed out the entire Font How-To, read the DeUglification How-To, and searched over the Internet, on MandrakeForum, and looked through the indexes of about 20 Linux books in Barnes and Noble. The only book that had *anything* about extended character sets was Peter Norton's, and what it had wasn't helpful. Also, given that there are character maps for both Gnome and KDE, you would expect that if you could select an extended character from the keyboard, you'd see the keyboard selector keys somewhere on the character map as you do with Character Map in Windows. But there are no keyboard equivalents in the Gnome and K character maps. You have to highlight the desired character, copy it to the clipboard, and paste into your application. This is wildly impractical. Even worse, only the characters in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) are shown in the character maps, so you CAN'T copy and paste such basic characters is a true apostrophe, typographic opening and closing quotation marks, em and en dashes, bullets, and true fractions for 1/4 and 3/4 into your application. If you have to copy and paste, obviously you can't use a character that doesn't appear in the character map. im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry, i cant remember the name of the document. If by any chance you find it, I would be most grateful if you'd post a message with its name and location. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Font Questions
Civileme wrote: Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control Center--Hàrdwárë--Keyboard Sélèct U S International Close Mandrake Contröl Center. Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' for example. They must be typed twice. If you type them once, then they combine with the ñéxt çharacter you type. Thank you for answering. But-- That's it That's all Linux offers me? What about characters that aren't on the keyboard at all, such as a cedille? What about true apostrophes, true quotation marks, bullets, em dashes, en dashes, fractions? These are such basic necessities that I don't understand how a modern operating system could leave them unavailable to users. --Judy Miner
RE: [newbie] Font Questions
This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's? The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/, and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry, i cant remember the name of the document. -- From: Judith Miner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 July 2001 15:40 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Font Questions Civileme wrote: Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control Center--Hàrdwárë--Keyboard Sélèct U S International Close Mandrake Contröl Center. Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' for example. They must be typed twice. If you type them once, then they combine with the ñéxt çharacter you type. Thank you for answering. But-- That's it That's all Linux offers me? What about characters that aren't on the keyboard at all, such as a cedille? What about true apostrophes, true quotation marks, bullets, em dashes, en dashes, fractions? These are such basic necessities that I don't understand how a modern operating system could leave them unavailable to users. --Judy Miner _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
[newbie] Font Questions
I have searched all the font How-To's and online sites I could find and cannot find the answer to this question. Can anyone help? How do you enter nonkeyboard characters into something like KWord? By nonkeyboard characters, I mean accented letters, fractions, em dashes, bullets. true typographic apostrophes and quotation marks, opening single quotation marks, and so forth. In Windows you hold down Alt and type the character code number and you see the character on screen and in your printed output. What do you do in X, KDE, and Gnome? I know about the character maps for KDE and Gnome, but click and copy is a completely impractical way to deal with extended characters. Surely there must be ways to type extended characters on the keyboard. I think it's passing strange that NOWHERE does any documentation mention this. Moreover, I looked through the entire Linux book section at Barnes and Noble and not one book had such a thing indexed. Even the 1600-page monsters had exhaustive sections on networks, consoles, Emacs, kernel building, yada-yada, but NOTHING WHATEVER on how to get a damn extended character typed!! Related question: how do you get a character set other than ISO-8859-1? That set is useless for document creation because it does not include essential typographic characters such as true quotation marks and true apostrophes. Without these characters, letters, reports, and other documents look amateurish and ugly. Surely there must be some way to get a proper character set in Linux. I do have my own Type 1 fonts and some TrueTypes installed and they are showing up--except not yet in StarOffice or WordPerfect. I am also in process of trying to dump the fonts that came with the system that I don't want. I have TrueTypes for screen display, but I prefer to use Type 1 for creating and printing documents. StarOffice includes directions for getting more fonts into it. The downloadable version of WordPerfect 8 apparently does not include the font installer utility, so you seem to be limited to the fonts that come with the program. If that is the case, I'll remove it from my system. Worthless! Answers to my questions most gratefully received! --Judy Miner
[newbie] font server / true type, X crashing
Still playing from time to time with true type fonts. Anyway, after reading some messages on this list, I noticed that I had a few ttf fonts laying around in /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western, and that (according to /etc/X11/fs/config) that path was in the xserver's font- path, and (of course) the xfs was running. So I peeked in there and saw a fonts.dir but no fonts.alias file. Anyhow, that in itself may explain way doing things like xterm -font fudd ' when there was a fudd.ttf file gave the error message could not open font, trying font 'fixed' . So, as root, I cp'd the fonts.dir file to fonts.alias, edited the fonts. alias file, removing the first line and then getting rid of the '.ttf' parts so I just had a file of font names and -misc-whatever-normal-extra gobbledygook-how-X-names-its-fonts :). I restarted xfs just to be sure that it would reread the file, and then tried to access these fonts by doing an 'xterm -font fudd ' for example. Upon doing so, no xterm. I saw the process running, so I tried another font - bingo - X crashed! Furthermore, the x font server would not start, at least not until I moved the offending fonts.alias file out of the way. I'm using 'XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-28mdk' and the rest of Xfree86 I compiled from sources. I haven't yet upgraded to 4.1.0. I remember having to reinstall the font server rpm because the compiled xfs would simply refuse to start - or die right after starting up. What am I missing? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I'd like to try to answer your first two questions, I can't readily answer the third. Marc Audard wrote: What is the purpose of it? To make fonts more easily readable. Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing is? 1. When a character is displayed on a monitor, it is displayed as a pattern of dots. 2. When a font designer designs a font for a certain display characteristics (dots per inch, whatever), he designs it so it looks good with those display characteristics. 3. Generally speaking, those dots are either on or off. When he makes that good looking design, he bases it on dots that are either on or off. 4. Antialiasing is a way of improving the appearance of a character by allowing dots to be on partway (shades of gray, or whatever color). By adding dots with varying shades of gray, the eye can be fooled into thinking the character is made with more dots than it really is made with. 5. Going back to 2, if a (bit-mapped) font is displayed on a display with the original intended characteristics, it looks good if the designer did a good job (and within the limits of the display characteristics -- at one dot per inch, no font on a computer screen would look good). 6. If a bit-mapped font is enlarged, it is not likely to look as good because the on and off bits will not be exactly where the original designer intended them to be. The characters will look blocky. 7. Antialiasing is an automatic means of applying shades of gray to the bits of the enlarged bit-mapped font to make it look better when enlarged. 8. There are also things other than bit mapped fonts -- they might be called vector or vector based (or something). They are better suited to being enlarged. I don't know whether antialiasing helps them also, or whether perhaps antialiasing is somehow automatically applied when a vector based font is enlarged. I'm sure someone will point out where I've led you astray. How can we see if this option works or not? I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, do they look good, but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for other reasons. Hope this helps, or provokes clarifying discussion, Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I'm no computer expert, but I do know what antialiasing means and I can try to extrapolate its meaning to fonts. Antialiasing is when a computer blurs a line to make it smooth. Whenever a computer makes a line at an angle, it is never smooth. You may notice this if you make a slanted line in MS Paint or whatever and zoom in a lot. You will see that the line is jagged. + + + + Sort of like that (How about that ASCII Art?) Antialiasing takes the like and blurs the edges together so that the line looks smooth. Kind of like this: \ \ \ \ Now, with fonts, when you have a letter like 'W' or 'M', there are jagged curves. Antialiasing will smooth out these curves and makes the lines seem straight and a little blurry. Antialiasing is mostly used for very large font sizes in which the jagged curves really become apparent. As for Mandrake, I have enable antialiasing in KDE control center because I've been told it will fix the font problem I've been having. However, so far this is not the case and I cannot see any noticable difference. Hope this helped. Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing is? What is the purpose of it? How can we see if this option works or not? Thanks, Marc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
Hi, Thanks. Is it also possible to enable antialiasing in Gnome Control Center? Marc
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Quoting James Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for Mandrake, I have enable antialiasing in KDE control center because I've been told it will fix the font problem I've been having. However, so far this is not the case and I cannot see any noticable difference.
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 09:48 am, you wrote: How can we see if this option works or not? I don't have a definitive answer for this -- partly is, do they look good, but that's not the entire answer because fonts can look bad for other reasons. Hope this helps, or provokes clarifying discussion, Randy Kramer One way to tell is use the kmag or xmag and magnify some letters, if you see various shading effects, you have anitaliased fonts. If you see all one color, ususally black, with jagged edges then you don't. -s
Re: [newbie] font antialiasing
Dave DeGear wrote: I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Davethe antialiasing check box is not in fonts it's in style. Use swat, it's in K(menu)-Configuration-Networking-Samba Configuration. -- Alan
[newbie] Font problem in LM8
Dear All, I had great looking fonts in 7.2 but some of the fonts on the internet and in some apps are almost illegible in my newly installed LM8. What can I do to improve this? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marcia
[newbie] Font server not loading
Hi All My first question to this list. I am running Mandrake 7.2 on a celeron 500 machine w/256M of ram. Creative TNT2 ultra vid card and no sound card. I got it installed no problem. It booted up fine right into X windows. My buddy came over this weekend to help me set it up so I could connect to the internet and all. I have a lynksys 4 port router and a cable modem. It was working fine for a little while. We tried loading star office but ran into some sort of problem.(unfortunately i dont recall the specifics) We rebooted the machine, when it came back up, the font server wouldnt load. It had a red X next to it in the check list. Then instead of booting into X windows, it went right to a command prompt. I was still connected to the net. but X windows would not load for us. Any suggestions? = Brian J Susol Raynham MA http://people.ne.mediaone.net/negative ICQ# 9088592 Yahoo: bsusol __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
[newbie] FONT UGLINESS
Some folks have found fonts too big for the space available (when testing beta2), and others have reported ugly fonts they were unable to change. Most of this might be attributed to anti-aliasing. We set it ON on the Beta2. We are setting it OFF in the Beta3. http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme has two scripts called AAon.sh and AAoff.sh. I bet you can guess what they do. It should be relatively simple for KDE enthusiasts to make Desktop icons that use them as executables. Please test this as a possible solution to your problem and report back to the list. Civileme
Re: [newbie] FONT UGLINESS
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote: Some folks have found fonts too big for the space available (when testing beta2), and others have reported ugly fonts they were unable to change. Most of this might be attributed to anti-aliasing. We set it ON on the Beta2. We are setting it OFF in the Beta3. http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme has two scripts called AAon.sh and AAoff.sh. I bet you can guess what they do. It should be relatively simple for KDE enthusiasts to make Desktop icons that use them as executables. Please test this as a possible solution to your problem and report back to the list. Civileme Asking again, I have not received a CD shipment, will there be one? Reading the mail is torture when you can't contribute. Will you be sending them out or did I miss it. Just curious, -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
[newbie] Font Paths Are All shot Up
Hi,. I crashed mandrake recently and broke my font config, the only way i can get X to startup without the famous errno 2, 'default font 'fixed' not found, message is to hack my X config to,.. FontPath="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" if i try FontPath="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts75dpi" etc it will fail with default font 'fixed' not found, why ? Also if i use the default '/fs/config' (catalog=sensible/path, sensible=path) and mkfontdir '/sensible/path/,sensible/path' and FontPath='unix/:-1', it fails with default font 'fixed' not found, why ? case any of the fonts were corrupted, i did a 'rpm -i --force ./XFree86-*' but that made no diffrence. any help would be appreacated,.. regards --- Matthew J Fletcher NPD Firmware When did ignorance become a point of view ? --- ** Serck Controls Ltd, Rowley Drive, Coventry, CV3 4FH, UK Tel: 44 (0) 24 7630 5050 Fax: 44 (0) 24 7630 2437 Web: www.serck-controls.co.uk Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the above. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Serck Controls Ltd. Please note that Serck Controls Ltd is able to, and reserves the right to, monitor e-mail communications passing through its network. This email has been checked for viruses. Serck Controls Ltd shall not be responsible for damage caused by any undetected virus. ** Serck Controls Ltd is a subsidiary of Roxspur PLC. Registered Office: The Lodge, Worting Park, Worting, Basingstoke RG23 8PY Registered in England No. 2147362 **
[newbie] Font Ugliness
Can anyone tell me why, even with XF86 ver 4.x, I STILL have to edit my XF86.config file and invert the 75dpi and 100dpi entries??? Why doesn't X use the 100 dpi fonts by default? What is the purpose of the default at 75dpi I'll bet this is one of the biggest pains for the newbies and the ugliness of the default fonts is a real turn-off for them. So, why do the distros continue to do it this way? I'm asking because I really want to know.
[newbie] Font color?
Hi there, When I open a terminal, looks like Linux use the green color for every executable file, and the red for compressed file, etc. How can I change this color schema? Thanks! Yue
[newbie] font drake for 7.02
Hey, has anyone tried to install font drake in 7.02? The one thing that I really liked about 7.1 was being able to use my wandows fonts. I'm going to download the RPM for it when I get home from work tonight and give it a try. I'll post my experience for the edification of all. Thanks for any input folks! Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Font Selection in X and Console
Try DrakFont, available in the Mandrake 7.1 GPL version. It also handles TrueType (TTF) fonts as used in WinDOS and a few other OSs. If you want good looking screen fonts, then I've found that the best way to go is to install and use the default Windoze TTF fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New, etc.). On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Adam Stark wrote: Hi, I was wondering how to change/preview/install fonts for the console and the X windows system. Is there a nice GUI program for this? I ask because currently some fonts don't display properly in X programs or the console, and I don't like to type. :) Also, I would like to make this a permanent change, so is there some configuration file I could edit to make this so? Adam Stark -- _ Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam...No windows, no gates. Apache inside. _
[newbie] Font Selection in X and Console
Hi, I was wondering how to change/preview/install fonts for the console and the X windows system. Is there a nice GUI program for this? I ask because currently some fonts don't display properly in X programs or the console, and I don't like to type. :) Also, I would like to make this a permanent change, so is there some configuration file I could edit to make this so? Adam Stark
[newbie] Font selection in X and console
Hi, I was wondering how to change/preview/install fonts for the console and the X windows system. Is there a nice GUI program for this? I ask because currently some fonts don't display properly in X programs or the console, and I don't like to type. :) Adam Stark
[newbie] font question
Hi, I have noticed that in netscape and mozilla, my fonts are all REAL small unless I go change the size, then it still isn't right. Is there any way to change this in the system. It seems like it is coming from Linux, since I installed mozilla on windows also and it works fine there. Thanks, Rich Foreman
[newbie] Font Sizes
Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[newbie] Font Sizes
Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[newbie] FONT Q: blocky text in Netscape?
Not new to Linux, but new to Mandrake. Installed 6.3 and I remember hearing it came with some truetype fonts built in or something. But when I opened Netscape, and went to some websites I had designed, some text was big and blocky like a Xerox logo or something. (You know - where the letter A looks like it's just 8 big Lego pixels.) Any clue what it might be? I know the website was looking for the fonts in this order: Verdana, Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetia, sans-serif. Any advice appreciated! Thanks... Derek Sivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] FONT Q: blocky text in Netscape?
Did you check the settings under EditPreferencesFonts? On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Not new to Linux, but new to Mandrake. Installed 6.3 and I remember hearing it came with some truetype fonts built in or something. But when I opened Netscape, and went to some websites I had designed, some text was big and blocky like a Xerox logo or something. (You know - where the letter A looks like it's just 8 big Lego pixels.) Any clue what it might be? I know the website was looking for the fonts in this order: Verdana, Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetia, sans-serif. Any advice appreciated! Thanks... Derek Sivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Logging Out...
Re: [newbie] Font trouble
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me know what I'm looking for? *I* certainly don't know...however a quick search of the archives of this list for "SIS" or "sis" should bring it to light. The archives can be found off a link to www.linux-mandrake.com John
Re: [newbie] Font trouble
I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me know what I'm looking for? - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Font trouble On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts would be represented as square boxes, or not show up at all. I've completely erased and reformatted/partitioned my hard drive numorous times and tried every resolution type. When the graphics test screen came up during installation, there was a gray confirmation box that I hit "enter" even though it was not readable. My system has the Sis 5598 chipset with 64MB shared memory. Any help with this would be highly appreciated, otherwise I'll be forced to give the thing a drop-kick out the door. Thanks Vic Upgrade your X configuration with the latest X server. This is a known bug with the X server that ships with 6.1. You'll probably have to download it directly from xfree86.org, or you may be able to find an RPM for it from rpmfind.net John
[newbie] Font trouble
I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts would be represented as square boxes, or not show up at all. I've completely erased and reformatted/partitioned my hard drive numorous times and tried every resolution type. When the graphics test screen came up during installation, there was a gray confirmation box that I hit "enter" even though it was not readable. My system has the Sis 5598 chipset with 64MB shared memory. Any help with this would be highly appreciated, otherwise I'll be forced to give the thing a drop-kick out the door. Thanks Vic
Re: [newbie] Font trouble
Victor Henderson wrote: I've recently tried to install 6.1 on my HP 6357 and everything worked out except one minor detail, there were no fonts. On tbe desktop some of the icons showed up as a black shadow, others were fine, but not one letter showed up. I've had this type of problem with windows also where the fonts would be represented as square boxes, or not show up at all. I've completely erased and reformatted/partitioned my hard drive numorous times and tried every resolution type. When the graphics test screen came up during installation, there was a gray confirmation box that I hit "enter" even though it was not readable. My system has the Sis 5598 chipset with 64MB shared memory. Any help with this would be highly appreciated, otherwise I'll be forced to give the thing a drop-kick out the door. Thanks Vic Someone at SiS must be laughing their ass off at the hell that they've caused computer users with their graphics chips. Personally, I'm not laughing. I believe there was a suggestion earlier today to try using the 'noaccel' option in the XF86Config file. Check the archives if you need further information... Personally, I'd probably ditch the SiS chip and get a nice card. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
