[oclug]Fonts revisited

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Mon Jan 27 14:44:08 EST 2003


On 27/01/03 Shad Young did speaketh:

> Here is a screenshot of the same page for comparison.
> 
> http://ascendant.obone.ca:8180/snapshot1.png
> 
> You will notice the marked difference in font rendering abilities
> between yours and mine.
> 
> OO.org is also very ugly.
> 
> http://ascendant.obone.ca:8180/snapshot2.png
> 
> I have tried TTFs, but they all show up "Bold". I have played with all
> the various X based fonts and you see the results... AA is on, but it
> does not work within Moz/galeon/NS/oo.org or any other non-KDE aware
> application.

    Are you sure that truetypes are working? I'm using X 4+, plus the freetype
module. How did you install your truetypes? They work quite well for me. 

    Mike

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