Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:24:44 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing Message-ID: <200306120024.44883.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <bc7dgh$61r$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org> <200306112320.28420.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <bc7dgh$61r$1@main.gmane.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > >> parv wrote: > >> > in message <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani > >> > thusly... > >> > > >> >> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE > >> >> applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizonta= l > >> >> spacing will be all messed up. > >> >> > >> >> Basically, every line of text will look like this: > >> >> > >> >> T H I S I S A G O O D E X A M P L E > > [...] > > >> Perhaps I should subscribe to a XFree86 mailling list and ask there. > > > > This looks like the effect I get if I (wrongly) use a proportional fo= nt > > in an application that is designed to use a fixed width font -- the > > effect is not restricted to TTF. > > Well, I can open a Konqueror window using the Luxi Sans TTF and everyth= ing > looks great (Luxi Sans is proportional, I think), but when I switch to > Courier New, some of the text in Konq is screwed up in the way I explai= n > above. > This knocks a big hole in my argument -- Courier is a fixed width font. I have in the passed installed true-type fonts from windows and never not= iced=20 any problems except with the strange ones (windings and the like) for whi= ch=20 the encodings got lost somewhere along the way. In those days that requir= ed=20 a third party true-type font server -- it was not supplied with XFree. But now-a-days I find I have a good range of fonts some of which I consid= er make the Microsoft true-types look rather mediocre. So to reduce confusio= n I've given up on the Microsoft ones. I find the Ghostscript fonts quite=20 useful, and in any case I have them on the system to support ghostscript = and=20 printing -- so one might as well connect them up to X. Malcolm Malcolm
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