On Thu, 13 May 1999, tom carlile wrote:

> i'm having some problems with using Xfstt and Netscape.  when i run
> xfstt and xset fp+ unix/:<port xfstt is serving on>, then run netscape
> i get a very large and ugly Helvetica font.  when i xset fp-
> unix/:<port> and run netscape the normal clean helvetica font is used.  
> it's real annoying having to add to your fontpath everytime you want
> to play with the gimp. my guess is it's overriding netscape's built in
> helvetica with a truetype helvetica from xfstt.  anyone know how i can
> stop this? besides avoiding using helvetica?

Put the unix/... into your config file at the END of the fontpath. That
way, bitmap fonts will take precedence.

Also, xfsft makes reasonable fonts... I dunno why yours is huge.

Taral

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