Hi, Ilya!
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 04:39:08AM +0300, you wrote the following:
> > Generally if you use redhat/mandrake (>=6.0) then adding another directory
> > to the font path of the X fonts server (which supports TTFs as well) is
> > quite easy:
>
> Just a tip from my experience lately with Debian (it's great -
> I'm converted from Redhat). The 'xfstt' package doesn't recognize
> any other encodings by itself, though it generates the fonts.dir
> for itself (no special utility needed).
> The 'xfs-xtt' package is what Redhat provides, and it works
> like a charm, but before you look around it's manuals trying
> to find what generates the fonts.dir, go and find 'ttmkfdir'.
> I'm now using xfs-xtt.
Funny, because this Friday I also moved from xfstt to xfs-xtt. :-)
Anyway, my quest was to eradicate the problem of extremely small fonts
in the browser for some sites (such as CNN). I tried moving to 100 DPI
fonts, but they are way too big. The solution was to keep using 75 DPI
fonts by default (with the 100 DPI fonts still on the fontpath), and
adding "-dpi 100" to the X command line (in gdm.conf in my case). I
don't know *how* it works, but all the fonts in all the applications
remained the same size, except the fonts in Netscape which became
bigger for sites that set them small (remaining *normal* for other
sites; it all really is very weird).
I'd love to hear other horror stories about your attempts to tame
Netscape and how you eventually succeeded to make it do what you want.
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