On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > > menus etc. that looks quite good, while in my Sid, it looks ugly as > > hell.
To get OpenOffice to use a nice anti-aliased font for the application menus and such, you need to do something rather non-obvious. Go to Tools | Options ... and select the OpenOffice.org | Font Replacement view. Select the "Apply replacement table" check box. Type "Andale Sans UI" in the combo-box labelled "Font". Select the replacement font from the drop-down of the combo-box labelled "Replace with". Click on the button with the "check mark" to add the new replacement entry. Make sure the "Always" and "Screen" check boxes of the replacement entry are selected. This should give you a better looking OpenOffice.org. :) > This is my current understanding of the basic requirements for > TrueType fonts in X11: > > 1. Get FreeType (I am using FreeType2, downloaded today). > 2. Make sure you've got 'Load "freetype"' in XF86Config-4. > 3. Put all your .ttf files somewhere, and afaik there is no specific > location where they have to live. > 4. Add that path to XF86Config-4 as 'FontPath "/path/to/ttfs/"' > 5. Run something like ttmkfdir to create the fonts.scale file, and > also mkfontdir to create the fonts.dir file within that > "/path/to/ttfs" directory. > 6. Somehow this should magically work. > > I think I'm getting hung up on number 6 ;-) I load xfontsel and take a > look at the families and I see no verdana ;-( I let defoma manage the fonts installed on my sid installation. When you do that, the your FontPath for TrueType fonts should contain something like "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType". So far, all of the fonts I use, and need, have debian packages for them. Installing them automatically registers the fonts with defoma and makes them available to applications. Xft and FreeType are not font servers. Xft is a client-side font API for X11 applications. I believe bitmap fonts are not made available by default through Xft. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if bitmap fonts can be made available through Xft. /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is the configuration file for fontconfing and it determines what fonts are available to applications through the Xft API. Xft uses the fontconfig mechanism to select fonts. To render the selected fonts, Xft uses the standard X11 drawing protocol. If the Render extension is available, that will be used to accelerate the rendering and reduce network traffic. See http://fontconfig.org/ for more on Xft and fontconfig FreeType is a TrueType font renderer. This is the module you load in the XF86Config-4 file. Hope this shed some light. -- Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
