On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First, > there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a > hamm box, can I? Then there is a problem with starting xfstt. It looks like
You should be able to install it, unless it refuses to install :-) . Seriously, the two systems are broadly compatible and the dependancy information in the package should deal with any problems for you. > Now I wonder what's broken on this system and do I have to expect something > like that on slink, too? I installed xfstt from slink tonight, as I'm getting sick of the same problem. It went fine, and fixed all the web pages I was having trouble with regularly (I knew I could use that Windows license for something). > > In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for > > netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was > Regarding font sizes in Netscape: Is it ok that I can't choose the font size > for a TTF? I think in Windows this is possible and at the moment I'm using > the Works for me. :-) I believe that the size can be chosen - xfstt will render at the chosen size. > content of a \WINNT\Fonts directory. Are there free fonts which look as good > or even better? The problem isn't the lack of TrueType. The problem is that far too many web designers hard code font names like Ariel which are only avalible on Windows into their web pages without providing a fallback to something more portable. Netscape doesn't deal with this at all well, substituting the microscopic Courier. You'd need to convince X that fonts you were substiting were called Ariel or whatever. I'm sure this is possible, but I don't know how. Mozilla seemed to fix this in whichever version I tried, making more sensible substitution when a Windows font was found. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
