mozilla AA fonts

[Nick Hudson]

Well ok thats not a problem ... Its in moonbase "lin bitstream-vera" but
it isnt availible from the Gnome FTP servers anymore until maybe a month
from now when they put them back.  For now you can grab a copy of it
from the cache server

http://lunar-linux.org/mirrors/bitstream-vera-1.0.tar.gz

You can type lin bitstream-vera but it will take it a few minutes to
cycle through the mirrors until it finds it on the cache server.  Just
let that install and see what happens.  Also for a tip on Xft edit your
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf file and add this into it.


<!-- Font directory list configured on Sun Mar 23 13:32:16 CST 2003 -->
 
        <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
        <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
        <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
        <dir>/usr/share/fonts/truetype</dir>
        <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

You will already have some directories there but you will need to add
those that are missing.  I have found this to work better expecially
running stuff as root.  Also after you do this and install the
bitstream-vera fonts you might want to re-run fc-cache

$ fc-cache -f

That will take a minute or two then everything should be ok.  Sorry for
all the work hopefully I can finx somethings in the future so this
really wont have to happen anymore.

Thanks

Nick Hudson

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:40:24 +0000
Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor at aktiv.co.hu> wrote:

> Hi Nick!
> 
> Just a short question now, i'm in a hurry. Where did u get that font?
> Could u give an url please or send this file to my private address
> (let's not stress the list w/ that) if u cannot find it?
> 
> thx, hirisov
> 
> 2003-04-12, szo keltezéssel Nick Hudson ezt írta:
> > This is what I do with Mozilla and Galeon2.  Mozilla has a option to
> > either use the web fonts the webpage specifies or you can specify
> > one font for the browser.  For me I choose 1 font for every webpage
> > being that in my opinion most webpages use ugly ass fonts.  It makes
> > for better reading and its a whole lot better looking than trying to
> > render webpage fonts that might not be AA to being with.  
> > 
> > As for editing your unix.js you really dont have to do that with
> > Mozilla 1.3 if you have Xft compiled it, it kind of does it own its
> > own.  As for that webpage for me as I have all webpages rendering in
> > 1 font they all look the same.  You can take a look at some
> > screenshopts I did to give you a idea of what I am talking about:
> > 
> > http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla-xft2.png
> > http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla-gtk2.png
> > 
> > This next one is how I have my fonts setup in my prefrences under
> > Mozilla
> > 
> > http://www.nhudson.org/ss/mozilla.png
> > 
> > If you have any questions or thoughts please let me know.  AA fonts
> > are a bit tricky and I work on it every day to try to fiond a better
> > way of doing things in Lunar with AA fonts.  Hopefully one day I
> > will find a solution that will solve alot of problems.  Main one
> > that I run into most if not all of the core fonts are not AA and
> > cant be rendered that way.  All of the ttf fonts are and they work
> > well with Xft.  Now the downside to the Core unix fonts is that some
> > webpages I have run into use those fonts that dont render AA at all
> > and you get a horrible looking font.  This is why I use 1 font to
> > look at webpages, makes for much easier living a reading on my eyes.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> 
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Nick Hudson

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