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Re: off-topic - netscape



On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote:
> I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now and
> have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or at
> least make its fonts look better. I always figured there was no official support
> of dynamic fonts for Linux Netscapes, however two things make me wonder if this
> is true:
> 	- firstly I noticed that I can get a popup menu from within 
> 	   Communicator listing all installed font-displayers. There
> 	   are none right now, but if there aren't any available, why
> 	   does this menu exist then?
> 	- secondly I find it hard to believe that this fairly old and
> 	   established chunk of software does not support what for
> 	   instance the KDE webbrowser supports.
> 
> Is there really no way of making the linux version of netscape dynamic fonts?

You can make it use a font server.  If you're running hamm it should be
possible to grab and set up the slink package xfstt.  Wait for a few days
for the new version to circulate out to everyone.  Then you can happily use
TrueType fonts and call it good enough.

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