From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 00:21:06 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 49C4B16A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA5443FA3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu74-159-108.nc.rr.com [24.74.159.108])h9E7Ic0E027957; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h9E7Kgdm021297; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:20:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: "Scott I. Remick" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1066116053.32360.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:20:53 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_FONT_BIG, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: 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 07:21:06 -0000 --=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:11, Scott I. Remick wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. I= t > seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not > anti-aliased. >=20 > An example would be: >=20 > This text isn't > anti-aliased! >=20 > (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF font= s > when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. > This would be Question #1). >=20 > 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 Ba= d > Idea. >=20 > 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. S= o > 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? >=20 > I know the page: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html >=20 > ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Joe >=20 > Any insight or help appreciated... thanks! >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/i6PVb2iPiv4Uz4cRAiztAJwMEhQFzeF1D1twPRrgK0sNqIAciwCgrAgs 6v/UGgAe2gPmHbMsvXEZqH4= =nuQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6--