Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
Hi, > Thanks. I am using 800X600 on a toshiba laptop and things are OK with xfstt, but > I have to spawn the process manually as root prior to using my normal login and > KDE. I have to remember to do this. I don't know where I put an instruction for > boot. Also, I am using OSS for a yamaha

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread David Whitehurst
Venkatesh Krishnamurthi wrote: > > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm > > > > > > One thing they do reasonably well. > > > > Only download in .exe i don't call this reasonable. > > Get the ones for Windows 3.1 or 3.11. Those are self-extracting zip files > that u

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread David Whitehurst
Gene C. wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, David Whitehurst wrote: > > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > > Any hints or suggestions? > > > > David > > > > OK, everyone has chimed in about u

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread David Whitehurst
Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Venkatesh Krishnamurthi) writes: > > > You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt > > RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror. Free high quality true type > > fonts are harder to find. > > RH6 also comes with a TT awa

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Venkatesh Krishnamurthi) writes: > You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt > RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror. Free high quality true type > fonts are harder to find. RH6 also comes with a TT aware xfs, set up by default. --

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'unzip ' will work. Then need to be converted to lower > case. Easy way is to copy to a DOS filesystem and then back again. No, the easy way is 'unzip -L ttfont.exe'. 8^) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Experience varies

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:42:25AM -0500, Liguo Song wrote: > Talking about the ugly fonts, I read something about documentation called > "fonts disuglization for X Windows", or something like this when I was reading > documentation like crazy. I couldn't find it right now. Does this ring a bell >

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Gene C.
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, David Whitehurst wrote: > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > Any hints or suggestions? > > David > OK, everyone has chimed in about using truetype and that is true.

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Liguo Song
Talking about the ugly fonts, I read something about documentation called "fonts disuglization for X Windows", or something like this when I was reading documentation like crazy. I couldn't find it right now. Does this ring a bell for anyone? I am thinking, there might be some useful information

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm > > > > One thing they do reasonably well. > > Only download in .exe i don't call this reasonable. Get the ones for Windows 3.1 or 3.11. Those are self-extracting zip files that unzip can extract. Venkatesh -- To unsubsc

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:12:09AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt > > > RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror. Free high quality true type > > > fonts are harder

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread David Whitehurst
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt > > > RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror. Free high quality true type > > > fonts are harder to find. > > > > xfs font server is instal

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread James M. Rogers
David Whitehurst wrote: > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > Any hints or suggestions? > > David > > -- > To unsubscribe: > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I have troub

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:41:46PM -0700, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi wrote: > > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > > Any hints or suggestions? > > You can use the xfstt font server to se

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
> Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > Any hints or suggestions? You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror.

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Alex Withers
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, David Whitehurst wrote: > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > Any hints or suggestions? > > David > I don't know much about it, but I do know that you can use TrueT