great, i'll try that out, thanks!! nate
On 12 Jul 2000, David Z Maze wrote: dmaze >Try adding '-dpi 100' to your X command line, either by modifying your dmaze >display manager's configuration file or by tacking it on to the end of dmaze >a startx line (startx :0 -- -dpi 100). Also, make sure 100dpi fonts dmaze >are listed before 75dpi fonts in your XF86Config/xfs configuration. dmaze > dmaze >Keep in mind that scalable (e.g. Type 1) fonts can be scaled to any dmaze >size at any resolution, so if the X server (or font server) believes dmaze >that you should be using 75dpi fonts, it'll synthesize scalable fonts dmaze >at 75dpi sizes. This can cause some of the mixed-point-size lossage. dmaze > dmaze >(It also seems to me that, in the specific case of 12 pt. Helvetica, dmaze >an exception line in the gsfonts package forces 75dpi fonts. It'd dmaze >help if someone else could confirm this, though. The easiest dmaze >workaround is to comment out the broken line in dmaze >/etc/X11/fonts/gsfonts.alias, IIRC. Not in front of a Debian box dmaze >right now... :-/) dmaze > dmaze >-- dmaze >David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ dmaze >"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." dmaze > -- Abra Mitchell dmaze > dmaze > dmaze >-- dmaze >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dmaze > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:48pm up 33 days, 22 min, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.09, 0.03
