Re: potato: font size is too big.
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:47:41PM -0700, Heather wrote:
> >
> > Netscape's printouts still suck tho. Sigh. Anyone try that with NS 6?
>
> I understand from the mini-HOWTO that NS uses only Type 1 fonts when
> it creates the .ps file to print, even though it displays TTF and even
> though gs will use TTF (if configured).
Hmm! This implies that if I have a Type1 available further up the list
alias'd to the same name, it will use that. So I could use some other
"cute sanserif" font instead of Comic Sans for instance...
I'll try it this weekend, and let y'all know the results.
>> What sort of misbehaviors does it have that made the difference for you?
>> I hacked xfsft patches into my own X server at some point, and stopped paying
>> attention to other renderers until recently; now I'm curious. I liked
>> xfsft because I already know how to hack font.dir and font.alias files...
>
> Well, I just didn't find the font display on this laptop to be as pleasing
> in NS with the xfs-xtt server as I do now with the xfs and xfstt combination.
> Displayed fonts were much smaller and scaling was much poorer, IMO, even
> though I configured xfs-xtt to use 100 dpi and set up the font paths as
> I do now with the seperate servers. I wish I had made a screenshot so
> I could demonstrate the difference I found here.
>
> > Consider it requested :)
>
> Okay, here it is:
>
> Fragment of /etc/X11/XF86Config
[ ellided ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The mini-HOWTO recommends keeping the misc directory available so the
> X server has the fallback to the Fixed font if the font servers should
> be unreachable. FTE uses this font for its X display and I found
> garbled text if the line was placed after the references to the two
> servers. So, placing it ahead satisfied FTE and hasn't seemed to harm
> other apps.
Ah. I was afraid it was something really weird. I already do the above
because X will actually refuse to load if it "can't find default font
'fixed'." I hate fixed, I enjoy lucidatypewriter, so I chased down the
references to it in my wm ages ago - but this is still a complaint. So...
This first, and I know it's "safe" to mess with everything else.
> The first server in the list is the xfstt server so that if a web page
> specifiess an arial font it will be displayed by NS using an arial TTF
> rather than a helvetica Type 1 font.
>
> - Nate >>
I alias'd "Helv" to real Helvetica 'cuz I like it better. Must be just me.
Anyways I've read about something calling itself Type 42 fonts, which are
ttf's wrappered in a type1 sandwich, and some things can deal with both
batches of info. Hunh.
Anyways this hardly seems laptop-ish any more. Thanks for the info, tho.
-* Heather Stern * star@starshine.org *-
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