Re: Fonts

["Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm@MIT.EDU>]

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On Wednesday 28 February 2001 23:16, Mircea Luca wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can somebody please point me to a man page,doc,wahtever to restore mack
> my old fonts and console settings.After the new upgrade they suck.The
> control center
> setting for fonts won't see my ttf's (xfontsel does) ,mc in a console is
> missing
> like half of the charcaters and the overall look is crap.
> I'm willing to read but I like to know what.Where was that setting for
> AA fonts anyway ?Couldn't find it anywhere.
it is very simple: read the emails in this mailing list
the issues you mention are discussed there.
you might be the Nth person to ask with N >> 1

for example here is an email sent by ivan but 
you might want to read a few others
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 20:18, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> Ok...so with input from folks and whatnot here are some tips.
>
> 1: Turn off AA support (it's enabled by default...grr, I'm fixing that)
> 2: If you want AA, be sure to install true type fonts...
> 3: Check out xfs-xtt
> 4: read back through the archive for more tips
> 5: Install xfonts-scalable .  If you don't have any type1 fonts (true type)
>    to begin with, it'll crash as AA is on by default...and if it can't find
>    any fonts it won't be happy.  This is most likely the cause of most of
>    crash on startup faults.
>
> Ivan

and try looking in the Control Center -> LookNFeel->Style (AA support is enabled there)


regards
C.
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