From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 21:28:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C1937B607 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:28:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris.netgate.net [204.145.147.154]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE45132E3 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00352; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: True Type fonts and Altavista In-Reply-To: <38AB7F44.AA7BFB7@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Be sure to set up Netscape's font prefs to use X fonts you actually have installed. I'm not sure how X handles this stuff any more but it probably guestimates (makes things fugly) when a requested font size or face doesn't exist. Typefaces are tough to masquerade. Also, you might want to confirm all the font packages are installed. Goto /stand/sysinstall->Index->Packages->(point at your package source)->x11-fonts. Select & enjoy. Dave On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mark S. Reichman wrote: > Can someone please tell me what kind of font Altavista is > using on their web page? No matter what true type > fonts I load up and use under the S3.xtt X server, I > cannot get the page to render nicely. The only thing > I can figure, is that altavista is using a font that is > not a standard windows install font? Or, the font > they are using is somehow aliased correctly under windows > to another installed font but my X installation is not aliasing it > correctly > to a font that I have. > Currently I have no fonts.alias dir in my TrueType dir. > I notice the /misc dir does have fonts.alias file. > Do I need a fonts.alias in my TrueType dir to solve this problem > with Altavista and what font are they using? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message