I think I've spent too much time messing with my fonts, reading TrueType, AA, and de-uglification HOWTOs, and messing things up with msttcorefonts.
Is it possible to get really nice looking fonts overall? Any help on any of these would be helpful. I have some screen shots. 1) http://hank.org/fonts.png After installing mscorettfonts Opera's form fields are a big font (see drop-down bos), and in Mozilla (on the left) the menu is AA I think. That side-bar menu is ugly. (Is that right that Mozilla uses AA fonts even if there's not a Xftconfig file??) 2) http://hank.org/fonts2.png That the same look but using a XftConfig file to enable AA fonts in Opera. I think I like the non-AA fonts in Opera better. Mabye I'm just not an AA-kind of fellow. 3) http://hank.org/fonts3.png Shows that I can't type at this time of night, somewhat ugly AA fonts in Google results for both Opera and Mozilla, and how msttcorefonts seems to have messed up some of my programs (xfontsel). A number of x* programs use that "comic sans ms" font by default. Argh! 4) http://hank.org/fonts4.png Some more ugly fonts in abiword. I haven't messed with it much. 5) Finally, when printing with jpilot on my HP LaserJet with Cupsys the fonts are ugly (well at least when printing a monthly calendar landscape). Someone mentioned I might need to install "Screen Fonts". Anyone know about this, and what I need to do? I'm running XFree86 4.2.1, Debian 2.4.20, with nvidia drivers & a Gforce2 TI. 21" Sony G500 monitor at 1152x864. My eyse are not what they used to be. $ dpkg -l | grep font ii console-data 2002.12.04dbs- Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table ii console-tools 0.2.3-23.3 Linux console and font utilities. ii console-tools- 0.2.3-23.3 Shared libraries for Linux console and font ii defoma 0.11.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config ii fontconfig 2.1-10 generic font configuration library ii gsfonts 6.0-2.1 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter ii gsfonts-x11 0.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. ii libfontconfig1 2.1-10 generic font configuration library (shared l ii libfontconfig1 2.1-10 generic font configuration library (developm ii libfreetype6 2.1.3-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libfreetype6-d 2.1.3-4 FreeType 2 font engine, development files ii msttcorefonts 1.1.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts ii psfontmgr 0.11.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D ii x-ttcidfont-co 13 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X. ii xfonts-100dpi 4.2.1-3 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 4.2.1-3 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 4.2.1-3 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-scalabl 4.2.1-3 scalable fonts for X ii xfs 4.2.1-3 X font server -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
