Quoting Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment. > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > 4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they > > look like this > > > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > > > > Without the ":unscaled" bit, XFree86 will try to scale these bitmap > > fonts up and down, which usually looks rather horrible. > > > :unscaled is explicitly deprecated in newer versions of XFree86 (e.g., > 4.2.1 that I'm running). README.fonts.gz says > (The `:unscaled' hack, while still supported, > should no longer be necessary in XFree86 4.0 and later.)
Amazing! I did not know that, and I'm sure most users weren't aware of that either. Just goes to show you the importance of keeping howtos up-to-date (or reading TFM, but people are more apt to read howtos, methinks, than boring readmes). -M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
