On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 04:48:58PM -0400, Steve Stevers! Coile wrote:
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> http://people.redhat.com/~scoile/fonts/fixing.html
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> Feedback welcome!
Excellent! I found a few good hints in concentrated form in there.
(Even though I'm using them under Solaris - but most of the tips are
very portable...)
Two suggesions:
Part one:
I actually added all the described Netscape X resources to ~/.Xdefaults
and then ran "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults" - that way I didn't have to log out to
get them working. Might be worth a hint.
Part three:
The idea with the font aliases is great, especially, when you're
browsing non-English pages, as very often, Umlauts and other special
characters don't get displayed properly because the author made the
mistake of using MS-only fonts and didn't encode the special characters
properly (i.e. ä -> ä etc.). However, it might be worthwhile
mentioning that one should check the resulting fonts.alias file for
"ugly" fonts. Example: On this Solaris box, running "mkaliasfont"
resulted in a file with loads of "narrow" and "sans" fonts among others.
For some odd reasons Netscape preferred them and the result was ugly. So
I went through the file and deleted all of them and the end result is
excellent. Also, some people might want to weed out 75dpi fonts or
things like that.
I also found that Netscape seemingly needs to be restarted after each
change in the fontpath to take advantage of the changes.
Oh, and if you'd like to be a bit more cross-platform, it might be an
idea to mention xset as well. I for example used
xset +fp /PATH/TO/compat to add that extra fontpath. The nice thing is
that one doesn't even need to be root to do so - users can set their own
font paths.
Thanks for the good work,
Thomas
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