On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:31:24PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > How do I do that? That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or | > not? Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or | > are some of them scalable? | | Any PFB (Postscript) or TTF font is scalable. Stuff in the speedo | directory is too. Anything .pcf is bitmap. | | I wouldn't recommend removing those directories... some programs may | hardcode fonts and require stuff there (usually "fixed"). Instead, | what I do is set every application/toolkit/whatever I use to use | scalable fonts.
Thanks. | It's a long list of places to change, but won't break anything. I'll probably find them eventualy :-). If I remove the directories I'll probably find them faster when I see things messed up. | Many programs accept X resources for this: | | Netscape*fontList: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 | Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 | Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 | Emacs.font: -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal-*-*-95-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 Thanks, but I don't use netscape or emacs (galeon and vim). | others have other means of configuration, like .gtkrc or the KDE | control panel. That way, you can minimize use of bitmap fonts and | live happily. I know how to set gvim. I'll check on .gtkrc sometime. -D
