Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:19:12 +0000 From: Jay Sachs <sachs@bull.cs.williams.edu> To: Fran Maruca <fmaruca@Omnia.com> Cc: "'freebsd'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Netscap 4.06 and Java Message-ID: <rz81zp37smn.fsf@hamburger.cs.williams.edu> In-Reply-To: Fran Maruca's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:12:44 -0400" References: <0D962991BD00D211A18900A0C9C8391A03AE27@OMNIA_3>
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Fran Maruca <fmaruca@Omnia.com> writes:
| I know I just posted this question a couple of days ago, but I thought
| I'd try one more time. I needed support for Java 1.1 and have loaded
| Netscape 4.06 from current. At the same time I loaded the Windows
| version of Netscape 4.06 for the Windows '98 crowd. The windows version
| seems to be fine, but on the BSD machines, all the java oriented pages
| are garbled. Pictures paint ok, but any text appears as junk. It's
| almost as if the text is compacted vs. using the entire line. I've
| played around with various font settings for encoding and width fonts
| with no luck. Even just brining up the Java Console I see the same
| thing.
>From /usr/ports/www/netscape4-navigator/pkg/DESCR:
Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chmod 444 fonts.dir
And then exit and restart your X server.
This might take care of your problem.
-jay
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