Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Keith Powell
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Derek Jennings
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Keith Powell
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread robin.bcc
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Greg Meyer
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-04-06 Thread robin.bcc
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Brian
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Paul
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
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

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
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.

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
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,

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Weaver
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

[newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-05 Thread Todd Slater
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?

Re: [newbie] Fonts in 9.1

2003-03-05 Thread Derek Jennings
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?