Thanks, will do!
HarM

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:49, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,,, Sorry for the last one being incomplete... never sneeze with your
> Hands on the mouse button... weird things happen...*cringe*
>
> Ok,  The following is on my box.
>
> For freetype I've installed
>
> freetype-1.3.1-17mdk
> freetype-tools-1.3.1-17mdk
> freetype2-2.1.3-2mdk
>
> The last one is from cooker the freetype2 in 9.0 is seriously out of
> date. (actually older than the one in 8.2!)
>
> then I went to
> http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri
>butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/
>
> And grabed some stuff from Texstar (despite the complaints he does do
> some nice stuff.)
>
> http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri
>butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/
>
> Xft-2.1-3tex  (works with freetype2 better)
> fontconfig-2.1-2tex  (Makes Xft fonts work cleaner)
> msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-3mdk.noarch.rpm
>
> The last one brings in and properly installs all those nice M$ ttf fonts.
>
> I'm also using his version of mozilla-xft but frankly after installing the
> above I really haven't noticed an improvement.  The final step is to go
> through your settings and make sure you are using either Xft fonts, or TTF
> fonts.  Luxi fonts work really well for me. The M$ fonts also look really
> nice.  I've also had luck installing free TTF fonts intended for M$ boxes.
>
> James
>
> PS grab keuphoria while you are on texstars site... one of the most
> beautiful screensavers I've seen in a long time.




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