[oclug]Fonts revisited

[Shad Young]

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:29, Chris H wrote:
> On January 26, 2003 05:59 pm, Shad Young wrote:
> > So, a pet peeve of mine has always been the somewhat god awful font
> > rendering abilities of X. That being said, it has come a long way, and
> > as long as I don't make the mistake of importing TTF, KDE's
> > anti-aliasing capabilities work well enough within native KDE/GNOME
> > application.
> 
> No expert at this end but the following two articles were very helpfull to get 
> things working on my SuSE install.
> 
> http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_helvetica.html
> 
> Note: also review the references at the bottom of the page.
> 
> Most but not all of this information should be generic. Let me know if its 
> applicable on your mandrake system.
> 
> /ch
> 

Good article. Confirms what I suspected. Alas solves no problems as I
have played with those setting already. Glad to see I was on the right
track. I figure its the driver.

NS has some "high resolution" fonts to use with moz, but they seem to
have the same nasty tendency to be over heavy much the same as WinTTF.

Thanks
Shad

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