Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 16:59:20 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Font Settings Message-ID: <199904021459.QAA07113@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: van.woerkom's message of Fri, 02 Apr 1999 16:41:11 %2B0200. <199904021441.QAA01199@oranje.my.domain>
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> Thanks for this hint! > > > Use the true type font renderer for X, in theory this should give > > you better results as they also use the hints in the fonts. > > Doesn't that imply that I need true type fonts? > Are there free ones or do I have to take some from a Windows > distribution? > I believe there are a lot of free ones, there must be links, see the ports collection. > > > The type1 rasterer doesn't use hints, and thus looks bad in low > > resolutions. > > The fonts scale bad. One size seems fine, most others look not > smooth at all. > This might be a problem with your fontpath, the old Xservers used the first font they would find, if this would be a scalable one, you would get only scalable fonts, regardless if you happened to have a bitmap font for a particalur resolution (which would look much better). Or vice versa, depending upon which font was found first. They have fixed that now, and you can specify :unscaled for a particular directory to let the xserver know that it should not try to scale these fonts when it has the same font in a scalable version. My fontpath looks like this: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.sgi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fo nts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Sp eedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.sgi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.sgi,/usr/X11R6/lib /X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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