On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > Yes, sorry... > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > menus etc. that looks quite good, while in my Sid, it looks ugly as > hell. I'm not that interested in using fonts in documents, but rather, > using fonts and anti-aliasing for the apps themselves. For example, > mozilla with AA looks _very_ neat! As does KDE 3.1, although apparently
Yes, I am primarily interested in fonts within applications (menus, etc.) and for websites that display in Verdana or Arial (read: ones I made in Windows, or even the ones I write now and put Verdana there for the Winfolk). > nobody in debian-kde knew how to let the font of konsole be just plain > readable fixed, 8x13. I installed KDE to try out 'desktop linux' but > except for the time it takes to start up, it is quite unusable without a > readable konsole. I run X @800x600 on a TFT panel and, unfortunately, > this makes AA rendering of small fonts difficult... > > David > > PS: Sorry I didn't have any info to share... No worries. I received a response from someone else directly who offered something of a personal account, and I did what that person found successful but to no avail. This is my current understanding of the basic requirements for TrueType fonts in X11: 1. Get FreeType (I am using FreeType2, downloaded today). 2. Make sure you've got 'Load "freetype"' in XF86Config-4. 3. Put all your .ttf files somewhere, and afaik there is no specific location where they have to live. 4. Add that path to XF86Config-4 as 'FontPath "/path/to/ttfs/"' 5. Run something like ttmkfdir to create the fonts.scale file, and also mkfontdir to create the fonts.dir file within that "/path/to/ttfs" directory. 6. Somehow this should magically work. I think I'm getting hung up on number 6 ;-) I load xfontsel and take a look at the families and I see no verdana ;-( Perhaps someone else has a suggestion, or a step I missed. I'd also like to know what fonts people are using for their terminals, especially if there is a font that can do all of the basic "old school" ANSI characters that make BitchX look so good. Right now I'm using -misc-fixed-medium-r, which looks pretty smart for text but makes ANSI stuff look terrible. I am a big fan of the "Terminal" bitmap font in Windows, anything like that out there? Thanks again! -- Aaron Bieber - Graphic Design // Web Design http://www.core-dev.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
