On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > Not really. That doesn't fix the problem in many sites, aside from
> > the fact that it ends up screwing up the general layout of many
> > pages. The whole thing boils down to how Linux and UNIX handle
> > fonts, and there is a good chance that the problem will not go away
> > until TrueType fonts are handled natively which XFree86 4.0 is
> > supposed to do, although I didn't try it yet.
>
> XFree 4.0 is using the same font engine as RH6.x xfs. TrueType works
> fairly well with xfs, and makes a big difference with _most_ websites.
> And, I don't think it is a *nix problem as much as a webdesign problem
> where font families are specified that have no native *nix
> equivalents.
>
Needless to say, I didn't express myself too well. When I said it is only
a Linux/UNIX problem, I didn't mean to imply that the OS itself was the
culprit or was affected by a bug. I was just trying to emphasize that
changing the font size in the Netscape preferences wouldn't help at all in
most cases.
Many of those sites are designed using TrueType fonts that are not free
but do come bundled with commercial, popular OSes (mainly Apple Mac and
Windows). The same fonts do not come bundled with Linux/UNIX, although
they can be purchased or installed. Therefore, certain sites will look
bad with a regular out of the box Linux, and changing the browser
preferences will not fix it.
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