Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
Hello, John, Maybe you could help me with this or maybe I've already done it, I don't know. Somebody in this list told me about a website: http://www.mandrake.org to go to that had info as how to enlarge the Linux tinytype fonts. Well, I went there, got the directions, printed out the directions, located this config file, opened it using 'gedit' as a text editor, swapped the 75's for the 100's in both entries, one in the /X11/fs and the line in the 'default-resolutions= 75,75,100,100 to the reverse of that and saved the changes, got out of gedit, and read the next set of directions which said: Restart the X Font Server by issuing this command as root: kill -SIGUSR1 $ (pidof xfs) It didn't say where I should be in Linux when I was supposed to issue this command. I thought I should be in the console when I did that, so I got up the console and, as root, typed out the above command and got this reply: 'unexpected 'p' I guess something was supposed to have restarted up but nothing like that happened. I just wonder if I did everything necessary by simply retyping the changes in that config file and saving it or did I need to do something else? I hope I've described this fully to you. Is changing the file enough or do I have to issue that 'kill' command and if so, where do I issue it? In the console? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks Richard - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the XF86Config file. This will call the 100dpi fonts insteadlarger fonts. You should be able to go in and manually select larger fonts anyway... John
RE: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
I stand to be corrected but I would also think you need to have the 100 dpi fonts installed. I don't use them on my machine so they're not installed. It's been a while so I don't remember if installing them was optional or not. This probably isn't a complete answer to your problem but is maybe one place to look. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Salts Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype Hello, John, Maybe you could help me with this or maybe I've already done it, I don't know. Somebody in this list told me about a website: http://www.mandrake.org to go to that had info as how to enlarge the Linux tinytype fonts. Well, I went there, got the directions, printed out the directions, located this config file, opened it using 'gedit' as a text editor, swapped the 75's for the 100's in both entries, one in the /X11/fs and the line in the 'default-resolutions= 75,75,100,100 to the reverse of that and saved the changes, got out of gedit, and read the next set of directions which said: Restart the X Font Server by issuing this command as root: kill -SIGUSR1 $ (pidof xfs) It didn't say where I should be in Linux when I was supposed to issue this command. I thought I should be in the console when I did that, so I got up the console and, as root, typed out the above command and got this reply: 'unexpected 'p' I guess something was supposed to have restarted up but nothing like that happened. I just wonder if I did everything necessary by simply retyping the changes in that config file and saving it or did I need to do something else? I hope I've described this fully to you. Is changing the file enough or do I have to issue that 'kill' command and if so, where do I issue it? In the console? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks Richard - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the XF86Config file. This will call the 100dpi fonts insteadlarger fonts. You should be able to go in and manually select larger fonts anyway... John
RE: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
Ken, How would I find out whether they are installed or not? Richard At 06:36 PM 10/16/99 -0700, you wrote: I stand to be corrected but I would also think you need to have the 100 dpi fonts installed. I don't use them on my machine so they're not installed. It's been a while so I don't remember if installing them was optional or not. This probably isn't a complete answer to your problem but is maybe one place to look. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Salts Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype Hello, John, Maybe you could help me with this or maybe I've already done it, I don't know. Somebody in this list told me about a website: http://www.mandrake.org to go to that had info as how to enlarge the Linux tinytype fonts. Well, I went there, got the directions, printed out the directions, located this config file, opened it using 'gedit' as a text editor, swapped the 75's for the 100's in both entries, one in the /X11/fs and the line in the 'default-resolutions= 75,75,100,100 to the reverse of that and saved the changes, got out of gedit, and read the next set of directions which said: Restart the X Font Server by issuing this command as root: kill -SIGUSR1 $ (pidof xfs) It didn't say where I should be in Linux when I was supposed to issue this command. I thought I should be in the console when I did that, so I got up the console and, as root, typed out the above command and got this reply: 'unexpected 'p' I guess something was supposed to have restarted up but nothing like that happened. I just wonder if I did everything necessary by simply retyping the changes in that config file and saving it or did I need to do something else? I hope I've described this fully to you. Is changing the file enough or do I have to issue that 'kill' command and if so, where do I issue it? In the console? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks Richard - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the XF86Config file. This will call the 100dpi fonts insteadlarger fonts. You should be able to go in and manually select larger fonts anyway... John
RE: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
To find out if you have the 100 dpi fonts installed type the following rpm -q XFree86-100dip-fonts Do this from the text console if that's how you log on or from a terminal window if you start up in XWindows. Notes: Changing fonts is not just a question of editing fonts.dir. There is a tool that will create a proper fonts.dir file for you. It has been a while so I can't really tell you what the name of it is. The mail list archives on Mandrake could help you though, this subject has been worked to death. After that you can delete the fonts you are pretty sure you won't be using but don't change anything else, except for the count value at the very beginning of the file. That has to be equal to the number of fonts the fonts.dir file actually refers to. There is some talk of deleting reference to all fonts that aren't referred to as iso8559-1. I personally cannot say one way or another if this is a good thing or not. My advice on this point is to invoke "Tinker's Rule #1" which is "Make a backup so you can restore the system to what appeared to be normal for most folks before you got your fingers in it and screwed up the works." Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Salts Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype Ken, How would I find out whether they are installed or not? Richard
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the XF86Config file. This will call the 100dpi fonts insteadlarger fonts. You should be able to go in and manually select larger fonts anyway... John
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've turned off the HTML as you suggested, but the type in the browser window is still SOOO tiny. I might have to buy a 26 inch montor!!! Try this... open up a Konsole (or console) window and go to your /etc/X11/ directory. Edit your XF86Config file and swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts. This should give you 100dpi fonts which will be larger. Good luck! Joh
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've turned off the HTML as you suggested, but the type in the browser window is still SOOO tiny. I might have to buy a 26 inch montor!!! Try this... open up a Konsole (or console) window and go to your /etc/X11/ directory. Edit your XF86Config file and swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts. This should give you 100dpi fonts which will be larger. Good luck! Joh
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Read the instructions at www.mandrakeuser.org They tell how to use the 100 dpi fonts. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On qua, 13 out 1999, Art wrote: %_The type on Netscape is SOOO tiny, I can barely read it. The Font size increase/decrease menu items are greyed out. How can I make the Netscape font size readable? Hi Art, Take a look at www.mandrakeuser.org in its X-Windows fonts section. It is pretty informative and has been updated recently. Regards, /Gustavo
