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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:18:33 -0400
From:      "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fonts question
Message-ID:  <pan.2003.10.15.03.18.32.897331@sremick.net>
References:  <pan.2003.10.14.07.11.18.12331@sremick.net> <1066116053.32360.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>> I know the page:
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html
>> 
>> ...but it doesn't go this deep.
> 
> Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does.

Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't miss that section, but I
can't see how it helps me here. Maybe you can let me know what I'm missing.

Going through those instructions:

I don't have a ~/.fonts/ directory, and I've looked through
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for *[Ll][Uu][Cc]* as well as examined all the
font descriptions in the various font.dir files and found no non-PCF
Lucida font mentioned.

Tweaking which fonts are anti-aliased seems not the answer as what I read
says that bitmap fonts like PCF cannot be anti-aliased. So the editing of
fonts-conf to control this isn't applicable. (note: that site talks about
editing that file, yet when you open it, it says at the very top to NOT
edit it).

Running fc-cache -f does not make these vector Lucida fonts visible to
AbiWord.

Changing the point size at which fonts are anti-aliased, or the spacing,
isn't applicable to my problems.

And finally, I already have bitstream-vera installed.

If the answer to my problem (or any of my 3 questions) is indeed on that
web page, then I guess I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing it. Sorry :(



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