[Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Graham Guttocks]

Greetings,

I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a new workstation with XF86
4.2.0 from ports and was disappointed to find that some of the fonts
are not very crisp, but seem out of focus.

In particular, XEmacs chooses the following as it's default font:

"-*-Courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"

This really looks horrid.  How do I find out what font this maps to,
and how to replace it with something better?  The default Helvetica is
also pretty poor.

Thanks.


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Re: [Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> "EE" == Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

EE> M$ has removed the TT WebFonts from their server.

Their EULA allows redistribution, so just get them from somewhere
else.  corefonts.sourceforge.net, for one.

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Re: [Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Egbert Eich]

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 > If your freetype is compiled without hinting, then you get blurry fonts...
 > 
 > Also, you need high quality hinted fonts for best results...
 >  - Jim

Just a not about quality hinted fonts:

M$ has removed the TT WebFonts from their server.

Egbert.
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Re: [Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Jim.Gettys]

If your freetype is compiled without hinting, then you get blurry fonts...

Also, you need high quality hinted fonts for best results...
- Jim

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Re: [Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Mark Vojkovich]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Graham Guttocks wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a new workstation with XF86
> 4.2.0 from ports and was disappointed to find that some of the fonts
> are not very crisp, but seem out of focus.

  Blurry fonts?  If they're not AA fonts (I didn't think XEmacs supported
AA fonts) it's not possible for them to be rendered blurry.  If anything
is blurry it's your monitor.

Mark.

> 
> In particular, XEmacs chooses the following as it's default font:
> 
> "-*-Courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
> 
> This really looks horrid.  How do I find out what font this maps to,
> and how to replace it with something better?  The default Helvetica is
> also pretty poor.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> =
> Regards,
> Graham
> 
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[Xpert]blurry fonts: XF86 4.2.0 / FreeBSD 4.6

[Graham Guttocks]

Greetings,

I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a new workstation with XF86
4.2.0 from ports and was disappointed to find that some of the fonts
are not very crisp, but seem out of focus.

In particular, XEmacs chooses the following as it's default font:

"-*-Courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"

This really looks horrid.  How do I find out what font this maps to,
and how to replace it with something better?  The default Helvetica is
also pretty poor.

Thanks.

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Regards,
Graham

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