From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 22:43:19 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 EC11537B602 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:43:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59635132EF for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA39550; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:43:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA90173; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:43:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA52500; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:43:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:43:08 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: wellsian Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: True Type fonts and Altavista Message-ID: <20000217074308.E51714@sr.se> References: <38AB7F44.AA7BFB7@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from wellsian@caffeine.com on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:28:10PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:28:10PM -0800, wellsian wrote: > 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. This doesn't help on altavista web page. Try it! It looks really ugly, even if you have set up your Netscape to fonts that exist on your system. > > 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 -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message