From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 00:11:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E2516A4BF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB0143F75 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9JKy-0005HP-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:11:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9JKx-0005HH-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:11:19 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9JKx-0000NO-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:11:19 +0200 From: "Scott I. Remick" Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:11:18 -0400 Lines: 41 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) X-Archive: encrypt Sender: news Subject: fonts question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:11:25 -0000 I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to it listing "Lucida" in the fonts pref list, which I have as a PCF font. It seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not anti-aliased. An example would be: This text isn't anti-aliased! (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF fonts when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. This would be Question #1). I use gnome (2.4), so I pulled up my font list to discover that "Lucida" was a PCF font. I also saw that I had LucidaBright and LucidaTypewriter, also PCF fonts. It occurred to me that maybe I could get the TTF "Lucida Sans" font and put it on here. If so, Question #2 is: is there a way to have X always substitute a font... in this case, Lucida Sans for any call for "Lucida"? I would assume flat out turning off PCF fonts would be a Bad Idea. The plot thickens though. I launch OpenOffice 1.1 and guess what? I see "Lucidasans", "Lucidabright", and "Lucidatypewriter" as VECTOR FONTS! Truly they are working, as I tried applying them to some sample text and made the point size huge. Yet these same fonts don't appear in AbiWord. So question #3 is: What gives? Where's this Lucidasans vector font coming from? How can I make it available to other apps, like Firebird and AbiWord? And how can I make it get used before the PCF Lucida? I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Any insight or help appreciated... thanks!