From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 01:49:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5366216A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:49:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA5D43D49 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:49:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k0O1nd702576; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:49:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from [171.69.215.93] (dhcp-171-69-215-93.cisco.com [171.69.215.93]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k0O1ncm04249; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:49:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43D587B3.8070003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:49:39 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Vella References: <4c13bcc60601222309x24f3215cpcf73c22eecb12514@mail.gmail.com> <200601231846.38189.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <4c13bcc60601231135w39a4556fyf38bf10a256817aa@mail.gmail.com> <200601231736.17160.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <200601231736.17160.satyam@sklinks.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Redirect Helvetica to Bitstream Vera Sans? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:49:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Vella wrote: > I've got most of my fonts looking good on my LCD display. Antialiasing is > working, etc.. But there are many pages and emails that look horrible. > Whenever I look at the source it has always been Verdana, Helvetica or Arial. > All the work I've done that has worked to improve my fonts has been in > ~/.fonts.conf > > Here is what I'm trying that doesn't seem to have any effect: > > > > Helvetica > > > sans-serif > > > > > Verdana > > > sans-serif > > > > > In the same file I have antialias set to true, hinting set to true and > hintstyle set to hintfull. Those all make a noticable difference. I haven't > put size requirements on antialiasing, but I don't feel that's my problem. > Because increasing the size of the problematic fonts doesn't help. > > I've tried the above redirects to Bitstream Vera Sans, but that also had no > effect. > > I did try to put Verdana and Arial fonts from a windows machine into ~/.fonts > directory, followed up with a fc-cache -f command. That had no effect. > > Any ideas? Also, where do I find what sans-serif is set to? This will do what you want: Helvetica sans-serif Joe > > Joseph Vella > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD1Yezb2iPiv4Uz4cRAidLAJ9oIiHxfg8OwcZYEQZLHgkUo81+4ACgqnFK IUpFTate5Qhoku2venu2Xw0= =UBng -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----