Re: Fonts

[Mircea Luca <mluca@canada.com>]

Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
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> On Wednesday 28 February 2001 23:16, Mircea Luca wrote:
> > Hi
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> > 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
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> and try looking in the Control Center -> LookNFeel->Style (AA support is enabled there)
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> regards
> C.
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Thanks,after I played a bit with the 3 fonts I have I managed to see the
text to
disable them.As for the rest I'll read the archive.:-)