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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