From owner-freebsd-java Thu May 25 14:55:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B2D37B5E9 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA61802; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:24:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200005252154.HAA61802@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Patchset 8 fonts In-Reply-To: <20000524095907.352C837BC14@hub.freebsd.org> from Robert Swindells at "May 24, 2000 02:59:07 am" To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:24:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au, rcf@ox.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Swindells wrote: > >(a) The code was merged with that in the Java porting team's CVS > > repository. They were using the current font.properties. > > The current font.properties uses the Lucida fonts that are supplied > with the JDK source as the preferred fonts. I'm sure they look great > if you have a TrueType capable X server but the fallback font is > Courier which looks ugly in menus. I'd have to agree completely with the comment about Courier. > >(b) Robert's font.properties doesn't work for me (XFree86 3.3.3.1), so > > I was unsure that it was working for others. Are the URW fonts > > standard with later versions of XFree86 or do they need to be > > installed separately? > > The URW fonts need to be installed separately. > > I guess they ought to be made into a port. That would be handy :). At least I should include some information about where to get them (anyone?). Thanks for clarifying that Robert! -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message