Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
At 10:43 AM 1/14/2005, Anne wrote: I presume this is in Konqueror, so I'd go to kcontrol (Configure Your Desktop) Look and Feel Fonts and experiment there with ... Thanks Anne, I did what you advised. I think the problem lies with the video card. Any suggestions for a replacement? Owen
Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 17:15, Owen wrote: At 10:43 AM 1/14/2005, Anne wrote: I presume this is in Konqueror, so I'd go to kcontrol (Configure Your Desktop) Look and Feel Fonts and experiment there with ... Thanks Anne, I did what you advised. I think the problem lies with the video card. Any suggestions for a replacement? Owen I'm not an expert on video cards, Owen, but http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VideoHC might help. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB7prdkFAvMr/nNX8RAjN8AJ4nZl/pwsB2xzDMxbhbBSRXqIO6JACfbBbn mOcYN7faVZqU2KM/MhatU0I= =mKE+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 Jan 2005 17:31, Owen wrote: Even though my eysight is poor I don't have any trouble with my Microsoft box. But data of the same nature on my Mandrake box is so small I am distressed in trying to read it. For example the type of text I have trouble with is: (Opening Screen) Welcome to Mandrake Linux All About Mandrake Linux Mandrake soft offers a comprehensive range... It is this last line I have problems with. The font is too small . I have a 20 inch LCD monitor so the problem isn't screen size. Is there a solution or am I just stuck? Owen I presume this is in Konqueror, so I'd go to kcontrol (Configure Your Desktop) Look and Feel Fonts and experiment there with sizes. If everything is too small you may need to check your setup (in Mandrake Control Center) of your monitor and your video card - you may be seeing too high a resolution. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6BLkkFAvMr/nNX8RAn+YAJ9vdUVK7lWabApUdyk2AqR3kd86IACfUMzr /7dMB7GNcB/mUOkJPxNjOzc= =hsEH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:31 -0800, Owen wrote: Even though my eysight is poor I don't have any trouble with my Microsoft box. But data of the same nature on my Mandrake box is so small I am distressed in trying to read it. For example the type of text I have trouble with is: (Opening Screen) Welcome to Mandrake Linux All About Mandrake Linux Mandrake soft offers a comprehensive range... It is this last line I have problems with. The font is too small . I have a 20 inch LCD monitor so the problem isn't screen size. Is there a solution or am I just stuck? Owen Owen, a little more information as to specifically where you are reading that opening screen. It sounds as though you are in Mozilla or some other browser in which case you can adjust the font from the preferences menu. You can also ajust your fonts system wide from one of the KDE, GNOME, or XFCE configuration menus. For example, in GNOME select systemconfigurationGnomeFonts. Hope this helps, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Fonts too small to see
I also have had problems with text size, and have been impressed by the number of applications for which ctrl ++ (control +) enlarge the view. I frequently use the control key with + or - to 'zoom' in or out, depending upon how I'm going on the day :) (this is mostly konqueror, kmail and gimp...) Hugh -Original Message- From: Kenneth Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2005 5:59 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:31 -0800, Owen wrote: Even though my eysight is poor I don't have any trouble with my Microsoft box. But data of the same nature on my Mandrake box is so small I am distressed in trying to read it. For example the type of text I have trouble with is: (Opening Screen) Welcome to Mandrake Linux All About Mandrake Linux Mandrake soft offers a comprehensive range... It is this last line I have problems with. The font is too small . I have a 20 inch LCD monitor so the problem isn't screen size. Is there a solution or am I just stuck? Owen Owen, a little more information as to specifically where you are reading that opening screen. It sounds as though you are in Mozilla or some other browser in which case you can adjust the font from the preferences menu. You can also ajust your fonts system wide from one of the KDE, GNOME, or XFCE configuration menus. For example, in GNOME select systemconfigurationGnomeFonts. Hope this helps, -- Kenneth Rhodes 100% MicroSoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
Amy, Okay, so there's this one font I absolutely loved to death when I was still using windows. Is there any way to make it work with Mandrake? I've still got the file for it from windows, so if there's a way to convert it to work, I'd be very happy to do what's needed for that. In Konqueror (file viewing) right click on the font and select 'Preview in font viewer' then click the Install button in the lower right corner. -- Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-Mandrake 10.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951 = Mandrake Club Silver Member Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 10:32:25 up 13:52, 1 user, load average: 1.09, 1.14, 1.12 Never mud wrestle with a pig.. you get dirty and the pig enjoys it! Never try to teach a pig to dance. You waste your time and annoy the pig. Theoretically pigs can fly if propelled with enough force. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
I just copy all windows fonts onto a usb drive and use mcc to import all the files with extensions ttf. That's it. J.T. From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fonts Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:37:48 +1300 Amy wrote: I'M A GMAIL USERS! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT ADDRESS YOU REPLY TO. THANKS. Okay, so there's this one font I absolutely loved to death when I was still using windows. Is there any way to make it work with Mandrake? I've still got the file for it from windows, so if there's a way to convert it to work, I'd be very happy to do what's needed for that. Thanks much in advance! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Do you have Windows still installed on the same machine? I have and I simply used the font import feature of mcc. If you have only the file then you might like to give the font import a try anyway. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
Amy wrote: I'M A GMAIL USERS! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT ADDRESS YOU REPLY TO. THANKS. Okay, so there's this one font I absolutely loved to death when I was still using windows. Is there any way to make it work with Mandrake? I've still got the file for it from windows, so if there's a way to convert it to work, I'd be very happy to do what's needed for that. Thanks much in advance! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Do you have Windows still installed on the same machine? I have and I simply used the font import feature of mcc. If you have only the file then you might like to give the font import a try anyway. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] fonts for md10
On Monday 31 May 2004 04:46 pm, John wrote: Hello I am having problems with the fonts looking faded. The message below is from the user log. I have a nvidia graphics card and installed the driver from nvidia. I have tried several differant combinations of resolution and monitor settings but I seem to be making it worse. Would appreciate help on getting straightened out. I had a multitude of problems with 10.0 official, and found that all my troubles went away with the NVidia kernel. There are some nvidia modules that are missing from 2.6.3 without that kernel. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 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] Fonts
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 22:35, David Collyer wrote: I am tinkering with Mandrake 10 B2 and am having a difficult time changing the system fonts. I go to to the Mandrake Control Center and select System and then Fonts. I am able to highlight the font I want, but there is not option to save or apply, and when I choose close no changes take place. Can anyone assist with this very basic task? I know I must just be missing something very basic. What are you trying to do in there?? In there you can only delete or add fonts to your system not set them as default (or such) in any way. Use the specific tool for the windowmanager you're using, to do that. In KDE that would be kDEControlCenter. Good luck, HarM Thanks in advance!! -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:59 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 22:35, David Collyer wrote: I am tinkering with Mandrake 10 B2 and am having a difficult time changing the system fonts. I go to to the Mandrake Control Center and select System and then Fonts. I am able to highlight the font I want, but there is not option to save or apply, and when I choose close no changes take place. Can anyone assist with this very basic task? I know I must just be missing something very basic. What are you trying to do in there?? In there you can only delete or add fonts to your system not set them as default (or such) in any way. Use the specific tool for the windowmanager you're using, to do that. In KDE that would be kDEControlCenter. Good luck, HarM Thanks in advance!! In other words kcontrol/Look and Feel/ Fonts Should get you up and running.. -- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts
- Original Message - From: emnej [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] fonts Mandrake 9.2 Gnome 2.4 Some of the programs that I use have nice anti-aliased fonts in the menu's. Examples are: Evolution, Epiphany, Galeon, Abiword, Gnumeric Others have bad looking fonts. Examples: Gnucash, Sylpheed-Claws, Grip Apart from the standard Mdk download edition I installed libfreetype from plf to have better fonts in Openoffice.org. Is there anyway I could improve this? I tried all the settings in the Gnome configuration centre but without succes. Thanks! Erik Hi Erik, if you are able to import some MS TT fonts, you will notice a marked improvement. Aside from that, and concerning OpenOffice fonts, you can check here: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html The section on Changing the user interface font, will get you a much better looking UI. I don't use Gnome, and I find configuration to be quite confusing in it as compared to KDE, which I do use, and like. With Gnome, I think maybe you have to do more configuration on an individual program basis. KDE seems to have things more integrated, at least to me. YMMV, of course. Someone more familiar with Gnome will be able to help you a lot more, but maybe this will help a little. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- ___ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.operamail.com, which allows you to send SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:52:44 +0100 emnej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the programs that I use have nice anti-aliased fonts in the menu's. Examples are: Evolution, Epiphany, Galeon, Abiword, Gnumeric Others have bad looking fonts. Examples: Gnucash, Sylpheed-Claws, Grip You are in the same sad situation that everyone else is: the apps you mention still use the GTK+1.2 interface, and therefore do not use XFT fonts. There are some ugly hacks, I am told, to get around this, but it may be more trouble than it's worth. Do a google.com/linux search on font deuglification, and you'll see what I mean. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!-- Rick Mercer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:24:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 3:29 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Joe, see http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ttfonts.php. This page explains howto install fonts with Mandrake Control Center. It appearantly takes good care of all the tricky bits, because now all fonts are available in Gimp. that's where I need them the most. That sounds a useful thing to know. Could you put together a how-to for the TWiki pages? Anne Anne, I put it in there a while back. I came too late to this thread to refer. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 9:39 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:24:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 3:29 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Joe, see http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ttfonts.php. This page explains howto install fonts with Mandrake Control Center. It appearantly takes good care of all the tricky bits, because now all fonts are available in Gimp. that's where I need them the most. That sounds a useful thing to know. Could you put together a how-to for the TWiki pages? Anne Anne, I put it in there a while back. I came too late to this thread to refer. Sorry, Jerry. There's just too much in there now to keep track, so I have to settle for reminding people often that knowledge acquired is good, but knowledge shared is better :-) 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] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:01:09 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Jerry. There's just too much in there now to keep track, so I have to settle for reminding people often that knowledge acquired is good, but knowledge shared is better :-) Anne I understand completely :-) Just letting ya know it's there so if someone was going to write up a howto they don't have to now. The TWiki's growing vastly and I've used it numerous times. It's a great tool! I'll continue to contribute when I figure out something spiffy (if i can remember my password heheh). Adding to it feels good. It gives you the feeling that you're giving back to the community that's helped you along. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:01 am, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry, Jerry. There's just too much in there now to keep track, so I have to settle for reminding people often that knowledge acquired is good, but knowledge shared is better :-) Anne Knowledge acquired is lost, knowledge shared is forever. -- Don't be consistent, but be simply true. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:48:04 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed new fonts recently in /usr/X11R6/bin/X11/fonts. What should I do to make the fonts available when I start my PC? Do I need to include the xset command in some configuration file? Just add an entry to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: FontPath /path/to/fonts -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.-- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Just install the freetype2 RPM from Texstar or PLF derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Just install the freetype2 RPM from Texstar or PLF derek Thanks for the information Derek. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
If you install cableextract and msttcorefonts you will also have more fonts and looking better on the screen. El Domingo, 6 de Abril de 2003 12:32, Keith Powell escribió: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Just install the freetype2 RPM from Texstar or PLF derek Thanks for the information Derek. Keith -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
Francisco Alcaraz wrote: If you install cableextract and msttcorefonts you will also have more fonts and looking better on the screen. Cableextract? El Domingo, 6 de Abril de 2003 12:32, Keith Powell escribió: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Just install the freetype2 RPM from Texstar or PLF derek Thanks for the information Derek. Keith 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
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. http://www.hardgrok.org/main/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=3 -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
Sorry, wrong written: cabextract-0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm and msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-3mdk.noarch.rpm El Domingo, 6 de Abril de 2003 20:59, robin.bcc escribió: Francisco Alcaraz wrote: If you install cableextract and msttcorefonts you will also have more fonts and looking better on the screen. Cableextract? El Domingo, 6 de Abril de 2003 12:32, Keith Powell escribió: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 10:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. Many thanks Keith Just install the freetype2 RPM from Texstar or PLF derek Thanks for the information Derek. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:31 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:28 pm, in reply to a question, Derek Jennings wrote: There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) Derek. The fonts in 9.1 look really excellent, and greatly improved from 9.0. To improve the fonts even further, are there instructions anywhere on how to enable the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM? I can't find them anywhere. http://www.hardgrok.org/main/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=3 A good guide - thanks for the link. the rest of the site looks interesting, too. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts messed up in konsole
Il sab, 2003-03-29 alle 17:50, Srinivas V. ha scritto: I just installed 9.1 on my Toshiba satellite. When i display man pages in konsole, i get funny symbols e.g. - is displayed as a box. also once i scroll thru a man page, small bits of characters get left on the screen (does that sound too vague/wierd ?? mebbe i should send a screenshot ??). i have to minimize and restore the window to get rid of those. is this a problem with konsole ? or could it be bcos i am using the vesa driver in X. i wasn't able to use X with the savage driver for my S3 SuperSavage, tho it worked fine in 9.0. I've got this same problem on my 9.1 box, but no clue on how to solve it. -- Simone Cortesi http://cortesi.com/ blog * photos * PHP manual in italian Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://cortesi.com/wishlist.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts messed up in konsole
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 05:43, Simone Cortesi wrote: Il sab, 2003-03-29 alle 17:50, Srinivas V. ha scritto: I just installed 9.1 on my Toshiba satellite. When i display man pages in konsole, i get funny symbols e.g. - is displayed as a box. also once i scroll thru a man page, small bits of characters get left on the screen (does that sound too vague/wierd ?? mebbe i should send a screenshot ??). i have to minimize and restore the window to get rid of those. is this a problem with konsole ? or could it be bcos i am using the vesa driver in X. i wasn't able to use X with the savage driver for my S3 SuperSavage, tho it worked fine in 9.0. I've got this same problem on my 9.1 box, but no clue on how to solve it. Have y'all tried changing the konsole font and saving the schema? As well, I installed heaps of TTF fonts and used anti-aliasing - then that prob disappeared... -- Sun Mar 30 08:35:00 EST 2003 08:35:00 up 8 days, 20:22, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.06 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Scientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question. They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that was built. Finally the big day was at hand. All the computers were linked together. They asked the question, Is there a God?. Lights started blinking, flashing and blinking some more. Suddenly, there was a loud crash, and a bolt of lightning came down from the sky, struck the computers, and welded all the connections permanently together. There is now, came the reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screensho ts /Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) derek I have Xft on 9.0, changed most of my default fonts to Arial and it looks just like those screenshots. Honestly I didn't think much about it, I needed antialiasing in Konq and Mozilla and that did it for me. The rest is just gravy. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:28:24 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/scree nshots /Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) derek Very nice. I considered moving to RH8 after seeing its font treatment in a screenshot, but I didn't want to trouble with learning another system and I like the MDK community. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? It looks very nice indeed. Is this because of improvements in XFree, or is this KDE specific? (Since I do not run KDE...) Paul -- Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well, are two things. -Ben Johnson http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:01 am, Paul wrote: Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? It looks very nice indeed. Is this because of improvements in XFree, or is this KDE specific? (Since I do not run KDE...) The Xft2 and fontconfig have been added to XFree86 4.3, so it should help system-wide. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: Very nice. I considered moving to RH8 after seeing its font treatment in a screenshot, but I didn't want to trouble with learning another system and I like the MDK community. Good, because RedHat proved that beauty is only skin deep. Despite all the raving of the quality and professionalism of the distro, it all pretty much sucked under the hood. I believe there have been like 5 kernel upgrades already. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:50, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:44 am, Todd Slater wrote: Very nice. I considered moving to RH8 after seeing its font treatment in a screenshot, but I didn't want to trouble with learning another system and I like the MDK community. Good, because RedHat proved that beauty is only skin deep. Despite all the raving of the quality and professionalism of the distro, it all pretty much sucked under the hood. I believe there have been like 5 kernel upgrades already. The RH 8.0 release came in answer to the MDK 9.0 release - it was more an exercise in prettying up the GUI's and melting the WM's into one desktop environment - only way I can think about putting it. Under the hood, it sucked/sucks - kernel versions are still below 2.4.20 - still unsure what kernel the next release, RH 8.1 is going to be - but overall, in having to deal with RH quite a bit, 8.0 sucked. I won't put it on my production boxes preferring to stick with 7.3 and (yeah, believe it or not) MDK on the workstations. -- Fri, 7 Mar 2003 06:05:00 +1100 6:05am up 7:30, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.24, 0.32 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 7.3 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Professor: Good news. There's a report on TV with some very bad news. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:28:24 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/scree nshots /Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) derek Very nice. I considered moving to RH8 after seeing its font treatment in a screenshot, but I didn't want to trouble with learning another system and I like the MDK community. Todd Todd, you would have been sorely disappointed since there aren't any admin tools in RH8.x. That is one immasculated OS. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I was checking out some stuff from texstar and came across some screenshots of Mandrake with XFT2 and just about fell off my chair. Is this the font treatment in 9.1, or is there something special that has to be done for XFT2? (http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots /Mandrake-XFT2/) On another subject, if you're using a recent Mozilla, how do you like the automatic image resizing? I haven't made up my mind yet. Todd Yep. 9.1 looks much like that :-) Nice isn't it? There will still be some tweaking possible to improve it still more such as enabling the bytecode interpreter in the freetype2 RPM (Disabled by default because of a patent issue) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts too big in KDE menus HELP, this looks horrible
El Dom 01 Dic 2002 06:46, Roberto Armenteros escribió: HI guys, I just installed LM 9.0 and for some reason the fonts in KDE menus are huge. For exampel, if you right click and the pop up menu comes up, the fonts in this menu are huge. Also in konqueror location,edit, View, go ... are too large. I cant find the place where I can change this fonts. Changing the fonts in the Configure Desktop tool wont change these fonts. Please, if you can gieve me a hand, I will really appreciate it. Robert. Hola, Roberto. You can change this fonts (and many others things) from Centro de ControlLookNFeelFuentes Suerte -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 8:08am up 14 min, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts too big in KDE menus HELP, this looks horrible
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 20:46, Roberto Armenteros wrote: HI guys, I just installed LM 9.0 and for some reason the fonts in KDE menus are huge. For exampel, if you right click and the pop up menu comes up, the fonts in this menu are huge. Also in konqueror location,edit, View, go ... are too large. I cant find the place where I can change this fonts. Changing the fonts in the Configure Desktop tool wont change these fonts. Please, if you can gieve me a hand, I will really appreciate it. Robert. Have you done the CONTROL CENTER / LOOK AND FEEL / FONTS - and tried to change them there yet? -- Mon Dec 2 05:50:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -- John Keats Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. How puzzling! I've just checked and there are 4 versions of Helvetica in my fonts list for KMail. In fact it tells me I'm using a customised font (without indicating which one), and I think I set it to Helvetica, though I can't be sure which one. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. It's curious how many problems we have that really bug some users and simply don't happen to others. Mind you, I think that similar things happened with 8.2 until it settled down. I guess that eventually we'll come to understand the cause of many of these problems. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the original sets, like the helvetica family is missing and some others. Anyone know how to get them back into the mix? I have looked at /etc/fonts/fonts.gonf and don't see anything to change to get them back. Help is appreciated. Dennis - I'm surprised at this. Helvetica is still on my list on OpenOffice. Are you sure they've disappeared, or is it one application in particular that can't see them? Anne Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Dennis - this has just rung a bell. Under 8.2 I had awful problems with fonts after I enabled anti-aliasing. Could that have caused it? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really bad. Even with antialiasing. I uninstalled and have my generic ML 9.0 fonts back and I like them well enough to leave MS to MS. Thanks, Dennis - this has just rung a bell. Under 8.2 I had awful problems with fonts after I enabled anti-aliasing. Could that have caused it? Anne Don't know but I think the main problem was between the keyboard and the scalp. I will check the method I used and try again later when I have more time, the holidays are upon us and time is at a premium. Feeling guilty just sitting here reading the e-mail. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:24:41 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't know but I think the main problem was between the keyboard and the scalp. snip -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 At work we call that an ID10T ticket hehe Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in KWrite
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 9:41 am, you wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2002 9:05 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: How can I make KWrite recognise my added fonts? Did you use the Mandrake Control Panel to add them? If so, they should be there ... Alastair Yes, I did. They're there in OOffice, but not in KWrite. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected Heather, go to KDE Control CenterLook N Feel Fonts you should be able to change them there. HTH Thanks Dennis - sorry about the silly questions! Heather 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
Re: [newbie] fonts too small
Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger how can i change this? sizes are OK for everything else thanks! Damian In Netscape ( I'm using 477 ) go to Edit - preferences - fonts and take your pick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu.
Control Panellook and feelfonts For fixed width font choose lucida typewriter (about size 11) That may help. e On Monday 04 March 2002 16:38, you wrote: Someone was asking about how to make fonts bigger in browsers - I have a supplementary question - how do you make more readable fonts in the text editor etc. I can't find a fonts option, and the text is virtually unreadable despite having toned my resolution down to 800 x 600. Heather Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu.
El lun, 04-03-2002 a las 21:38, Heather Reed escribió: Someone was asking about how to make fonts bigger in browsers - I have a supplementary question - how do you make more readable fonts in the text editor etc. I can't find a fonts option, and the text is virtually unreadable despite having toned my resolution down to 800 x 600. Heather do you mean the text editor from kde? you could try by setting font sizes in mandrake control panel, in fonts section. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected
El lun, 04-03-2002 a las 23:27, Damian Gatabria escribió: El lun, 04-03-2002 a las 21:38, Heather Reed escribió: Someone was asking about how to make fonts bigger in browsers - I have a supplementary question - how do you make more readable fonts in the text editor etc. I can't find a fonts option, and the text is virtually unreadable despite having toned my resolution down to 800 x 600. Heather do you mean the text editor from kde? you could try by setting font sizes in mandrake control panel, in fonts section. HTH Damian sorry, i meant KDE control center. ;oP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected
On 05 Mar 2002 00:02:43 -0300 Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 04-03-2002 a las 23:27, Damian Gatabria escribió: El lun, 04-03-2002 a las 21:38, Heather Reed escribió: Someone was asking about how to make fonts bigger in browsers - I have a supplementary question - how do you make more readable fonts in the text editor etc. I can't find a fonts option, and the text is virtually unreadable despite having toned my resolution down to 800 x 600. Heather do you mean the text editor from kde? you could try by setting font sizes in mandrake control panel, in fonts section. HTH Damian sorry, i meant KDE control center. ;oP Heather, go to KDE Control CenterLook N Feel Fonts you should be able to change them there. HTH Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts too small
On Monday 04 March 2002 01:35, Damian Gatabria wrote: hi.! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text. Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger. Use Galeon. Out of the box, it has a widget on the toolbar that lets you specify a size from 10% to 200% and above? for that particular page. More generally, you need to go into each browser's preferences, set the font *and* then specify that it should use your fonts, not those specified by the web page author. If you don't specify this, your fonts will only be used if the author made a weak specification like Serif (which is actually the right way to write HTML, but fewer and fewer web authors do this) All the examples below start from the top menu: Netscape4: Edit| Preferences | expand Appearance (click on triangle) | Fonts | fill in as you wish Mozilla/Netscape 6: Same as above, but needs to be done separately. Do NOT trust it to pick up your netscape4 prefs! Galeon: Settings | Preferences | Rendering | Fonts/Colors | fill in as you wish Konqueror: Settings | Configure Konqueror | Konqueror Browser | Appearance Opera has these settings as well IIRC, but I don't have that app loaded so you'll have to search for it yourself. Generally each of these ask for a serif font (serif s are the little hooks at the end of letters in typefaces like Times), a sans serif font (sans as in without, so this is like Arial) and a monospaced font (all letters are equally wide, like Courier). Things like fantasy font are ignorable. One final way of making your apps more readable is to take your screen resolution down a notch. If you are running at your monitor's ragged edge, like 1600 x 1200, bring it back down one step and see if your eyes don't appreciate it! -- 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 ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts too small -thanks
El dom, 03-03-2002 a las 20:59, Michel Clasquin escribió: On Monday 04 March 2002 01:35, Damian Gatabria wrote: hi.! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text. Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger. Use Galeon. Out of the box, it has a widget on the toolbar that lets you specify a size from 10% to 200% and above? for that particular page. More generally, you need to go into each browser's preferences, set the font *and* then specify that it should use your fonts, not those specified by the web page author. If you don't specify this, your fonts will only be used if the author made a weak specification like Serif (which is actually the right way to write HTML, but fewer and fewer web authors do this) All the examples below start from the top menu: Netscape4: Edit| Preferences | expand Appearance (click on triangle) | Fonts | fill in as you wish Mozilla/Netscape 6: Same as above, but needs to be done separately. Do NOT trust it to pick up your netscape4 prefs! Galeon: Settings | Preferences | Rendering | Fonts/Colors | fill in as you wish Konqueror: Settings | Configure Konqueror | Konqueror Browser | Appearance Opera has these settings as well IIRC, but I don't have that app loaded so you'll have to search for it yourself. Generally each of these ask for a serif font (serif s are the little hooks at the end of letters in typefaces like Times), a sans serif font (sans as in without, so this is like Arial) and a monospaced font (all letters are equally wide, like Courier). Things like fantasy font are ignorable. One final way of making your apps more readable is to take your screen resolution down a notch. If you are running at your monitor's ragged edge, like 1600 x 1200, bring it back down one step and see if your eyes don't appreciate it! -- 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 ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Looks like galeon is turning into my default browser.thanks for your quick response ;o) see ya. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fonts too small
ctrl+ for mozilla, then ctrl- to reduce Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger how can i change this? sizes are OK for everything else thanks! Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] fonts for user restricted in 8.1
i have no 'font installer' off kcontrolsystem, there is 'fonts' off 'look and feel' but of course that is the problem i described, this doesn't offer me the full range of fonts bascule You might find more fonts in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Check your settings in kcontrol (KDE Control Center) System Font Installer Settings (tab) Folders Files. My Encodings folder shows /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/ HTH skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts for Linux
Adventure is in the fonts-ttf-west_european pacakge. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:39, Terry wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can download some fonts to add to Linux? I'm particularly looking for a font called Adventure. For some reason it is on my computer at home, but not here on my work computer. Thanks! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
RE: [newbie] Fonts very small everywhere
I had this problem on my laptop and felt like a dork when I figured it out. go into your desktop (KDE or gnome, whatever) configuration tool (where you change the colors and all) and select fonts on the right hand side. you should be able to choose what fonts and sizes you want where. if you can't find where this is, lemme know. I'll have to get into LM to find out.
Re: [newbie] fonts in StarOffice
kp _ wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz Everything was fine during install, my big problem is that fonts are UGLY in Star Office I've tried things I found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file, uninstall AbiWord...) but this is still ugly... So what is the solution to have nice letters ? Thanks. __ Boîte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com We are expecting a Sun employee to respond to this. Stay tuned to the newbie post. As soon as I receive an answer from him, I will post it asap. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] fonts in StarOffice
Do your show up in SO? None of the windows fonts show up here? Is there some surgery necessary? -s On Tuesday 03 July 2001 08:39 pm, you wrote: have you tried importing all the fonts from windows if you've got a dual boot system?
Re: [newbie] fonts in StarOffice
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:45, kp _ wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz So do I -- it works brilliantly here! Everything was fine during install, my big problem is that fonts are UGLY in Star Office I've tried things I found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file, uninstall AbiWord...) but this is still ugly... So what is the solution to have nice letters ? Thanks. In short... no. Staroffice is a monolithic application that only supports certain Postscript fonts. I know there are tools out there that can convert TrueType (as used in Windows) to Postscript fonts -- perhaps you should do a search for those. Otherwise you should use an alternative, like Abiword, Kword or OpenOffice (the successor to StarOffice). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] fonts etc. in rc1
On Tuesday 17 April 2001 03:02, Florian Struck wrote: I just installed rc1 still the fonts are screwed ie: in abiword what can i do? Also still mozilla and java = ough. The rest worx fine even cdburner. That sounds like im not very satisfyed ... well thats not true this , to be honest; looks REALLY AMAZING . A few days ago i sayd in the mandrake irc channel that MDK 8 will make the hop into mainstream someone answered that linux will make the hop if someone develops a browser as fast and good as IE ... WELL BOYS THE TIME HAS COME!!! have a look at KONQUEROR its beautifull JAVA, FLASH IT WORX AND ITS FAST, ITS TIME
Re: [newbie] fonts etc. in rc1
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:08:09PM +0300, Florian Struck wrote: honest; looks REALLY AMAZING . A few days ago i sayd in the mandrake irc channel that MDK 8 will make the hop into mainstream someone answered that linux will make the hop if someone develops a browser as fast and good as IE This may or may not be public opinion, but I think the main barrier to our entry is the lack of a finanacial application that can do what Quicken does (or a collection of tools/scripts/utilities to provide the equivalent functionality). That, coupled with an Office compatible program such as StarOffice, could very well be the leaping block that prepels us onto the generic user desktop. Plus, advanced functions for Webmain/Linuxconf are required so that regular non-geeks can modify their systems easily. YMMV and the opinions expressed are those of the author alone. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
At 01:36 PM 17-11-2000 +1100, you wrote: There is an excellent Mini-HOWTO on font deuglification that comes with the distribution. Thanks Ot, BTW, distribution = Mandrake 7.1 ? or Red Hat ? Regards
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
All you have to do is set the fonts to something more readable in both style and size. that can be done in the preferences. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 L. H. LOO had this to say! Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and Decrease Font commands are greyed out. What can I do please ? TIA Regards.
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
There is an excellent Mini-HOWTO on font deuglification that comes with the distribution. It tells you how to set up and use TrueType fonts in Linux. I followed the instructions last night and the results are much better. Cheers, Ot - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape All you have to do is set the fonts to something more readable in both style and size. that can be done in the preferences. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 L. H. LOO had this to say! Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and Decrease Font commands are greyed out. What can I do please ? TIA Regards.
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
At 08:13 PM 16-11-2000 -0500, you wrote: style and size. that can be done in the preferences. Mark Thank you, I did that, it reads slightly better, the improvement is rather minute; before the change, the font was something like size5, from preferences I changed to 24, now is something like size7. May be I can type in 36 ;-) Regards
Re: [newbie] fonts in Netscape
"L. H. LOO" escribió: Greetings, After 16 months to the day, last night I was able to connect to the Internet from Linux. But, the web pages displayed in Netscape was very small even smaller than this. And in the View Menu : Increase Font and Decrease Font commands are greyed out. What can I do please ? TIA Regards. Look at rpmfind.net for mozilla-fonts, install the rpm and choose one mozilla font. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: I still had to go into the XFS config file mentioned in the README for the Mozilla-Fonts package and add the directory the Mozilla fonts got installed to (look at the file list in the RPM, because it's not the same directory as the readme says). The rpm should've taken care of all this. IOW's, install the rpm, start Netscape, and under 'edit|preferences|fonts' you should see the new fonts available for choosing, eg. helvetica(mozilla). Anyhow, here the package desription for the rpm I installed. You can check against your rpm by doing rpm -qpil mozilla-fonts..rpm Name: mozilla-fontsRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2310 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 5mdk Build Date: Sat 06 May 2000 03:54:58 PM CDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: kenobi.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Fonts/X11 bitmap Source RPM: mozilla-fonts-2310-5mdk.src.rpm Size: 656733 License: Distributable Packager: Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/ Summary : A set fonts for Netscape and Mozilla Description : This is a complete set of three font faces (Times, Helvetica, Courier) in seven sizes and four variants each, optimized for use by the Netscape (Mozilla) WWW browser under Unix. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/cour7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courb7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/courbi7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/couri7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/fonts.alias /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/fonts.dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv0.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helv7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvb7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvbi7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/helvi7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times1.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times2.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times3.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times4.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times5.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times6.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/times7.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla-fonts/timesb1.pcf.gz
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
On 30 Jun 00, at 0:09, Pedro _ wrote: I have Mandrake 7.02 and I am disapointed with fonts of Netscape. Pages do not look the same... Where are the "Windows" fonts, like arial, verdana, etc... ? Can we add more fonts to Netscape? How? Set font size to 18 or thereabouts, it'll work fine. Or download the mozilla fonts from www.skunk.mit.edu. Even better, download the latest mozilla binary (current is M16, i think) and use it. It is faster, better, and definitely more eye friendly than Netscape's borg. Sthitaprajna | (at)mailandnews(dot)com
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi! I have Mandrake 7.02 and I am disapointed with fonts of Netscape. Pages do not look the same... Where are the "Windows" fonts, like arial, verdana, etc... ? Can we add more fonts to Netscape? How? On any 'cooker' ftp site such as: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ ...or any '7.1' site ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/ you'll find 'drakfontrpm' which installs your windows TT fonts for all X apps including Netscape. NS still looks like heck, so also get the 'mozilla-fontsrpm' which installs some fonts for NS that look a lot better. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fonts in Netscape
I still had to go into the XFS config file mentioned in the README for the Mozilla-Fonts package and add the directory the Mozilla fonts got installed to (look at the file list in the RPM, because it's not the same directory as the readme says). Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi! I have Mandrake 7.02 and I am disapointed with fonts of Netscape. Pages do not look the same... Where are the "Windows" fonts, like arial, verdana, etc... ? Can we add more fonts to Netscape? How? On any 'cooker' ftp site such as: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ ...or any '7.1' site ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/ you'll find 'drakfontrpm' which installs your windows TT fonts for all X apps including Netscape. NS still looks like heck, so also get the 'mozilla-fontsrpm' which installs some fonts for NS that look a lot better. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] Fonts
Donny wrote: Does anybody have any tips on how to make the fonts in Netscape look better? Here are the things that I've done to make things look a bit better: 1) Remove the 75dpi and 100dpi lines in /etc/X11/fs/config that don't end in :unscaled. Restart xfs (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart). 2) In Netscape, click Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Fonts and choose Helvetica(Adobe) for your variable width font, Courier(Adobe) for fixed width. Pick a font size that you like. Do NOT click the "Scaled" buttons. Also click the "Use my fonts" box. 3) Try switching the 75dpi and 100dpi font lines in /etc/X11/fs/config and see if you prefer the size of one to the other. You'll have to restart xfs to notice the changes. Those have been my best bets for using stock fonts and getting a good looking Netscape. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Fonts
Donny wrote: Does anybody have any tips on how to make the fonts in Netscape look better? I installed my Windoze True Type fonts in Linux and now Netscape fonts display beautifully. Here's how I did it: 1. Copy Windoze TT fonts to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/ 2. Run "ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir" from above directory. (Download ttmkfdir if you don't have it) 3. Edit the resulting fonts.dir file so it only includes iso-8859-1 char set fonts. This was necessary to resolve font conflicts on my system. Be sure to change the first line of fonts.dir to show the actual number of fonts after you edit the file. You can use "wc -l fonts.dir" to count the number of fonts. 4. Save fonts.dir after editing 5. Reboot or restart the font server. 6.In Netscape preferences, select the True-Type fonts and sizes you wish to use. I leave font scaling unchecked. I have "Use document-specified fonts, including dynamic fonts" checked. Hope this helps. -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Re: [newbie] Fonts
Well, I think the PowerPack offers additional TT fonts on one of the CDs. Idon't remember which Iinstalled it from, either install or Contributed Netscrape Has an obvious course to change fonts for fixed and variable width and also has an arcane "Codings" setting which I use to set up custom Cyrillic fonts for the Russian penpals Ihave. A little tinkering is in order. Edit menu, Preferences Selection, then Appearance and fonts choices. Of Course, it would be wise to DL the extra TTfonst first. Iwas annoyed by the same things you mention, with a 1024x768x32 screen on a 15" monitor. Ijust fixed it. Ichose KDEControl Center and clicked on Desktop and then Fonts. It seems you have several categories of text you can change and you can set the size as large as 16 point for any of them. Blue Highway and BookMan, Baltar and Hydrogen Whiskey, and a nice 14-point iso-8859-1 fixed width font now grace my desktop. Much more reradable Then I read your next message and LO-- on the KDEControl Center is a setting for KEYs which allows you to define which keystrokes do what. I'm going to use that one too Civileme Jo wrote: Hi, One reason why I keep booting back to Windows, despite all Linux' virtues, is because I can't seem to find a way to make the fonts under Linux a pleasure to read. I don't say it's impossible to read them, but it is tiresome. Especially in Netscape, an application I'm using a lot lately and which allows me to compare the interfaces of NT and Linux Mandrake. I'm running KDE on a 17" screen. The resolution is set to 1024x768 and my eyesight is above average. Still the fonts are too small. But even when I change the resolution they are still ugly compared to the Windows fonts. I already tried to change the fonts and their size under Netscape, but this doesn't change anything. So, is it possible to change the fonts and their size systemwide? Jo -- Civileme Say: "Man who read the fine material available make wiser decisions, much wiser after some tinkering and experience."
