On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:37:17 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote: > > Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look > > *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a > > crafted bitmap available. > > I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect, and > they're definitely my favorite for this purpose. > > I can show you an 800x600 picture of my mailer (Sylpheed); the message > body font is Lucida Sans Typewriter, and the rest, including the menu, > is in Helvetica. > http://home.kpnplanet.nl/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sylpheed.gif > > S.H. > > I used to use Helvetica as the application font, and quite liked it. What caused me to change was that it kept popping up in web pages at inappropriate sizes, looking --- as Rick puts it --- seriously ugly. I never found a way to alias Helvetica to a Truetype font in the browser content while preserving it in the browser chrome and elsewhere. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
