Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:17:14 -0400 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing Message-ID: <bc7dgh$61r$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org> <20030611032329.GA54180@moo.holy.cow> <bc7a9p$jkm$1@main.gmane.org> <200306112320.28420.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: >> parv wrote: >> > in message <bc5h87$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 horizontal >> >> 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 font 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 everything 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 explain above. I think you may be on to something there, but I don't think it's that simple. I think there is something wrong with the way the Windows XP fonts are described to X with the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files or something. Has ANYONE here installed windows fonts in their X server? Have you had this problem? If not, could you send me instructions for installing windows fonts under X so that I can compare them with the methods I use? Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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