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Re: How to make X fonts Bigger



On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 05:36:49AM -0400, John Kloss wrote:
> > > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are
> > > now?
> > 
> > If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly,
> > LET ME KNOW!  I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger
> > monitor.
> 
> You can compile in support for TrueType fonts. Found the code for this at
> 
> 	www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft
> 
> I haven't done it yet, but this guy had screen shots of Netscape before
> and after and the difference was dramatic. I'm just waiting for hamm to go
> stable so that when I switch over I can apply this.

I have xfstt now.  Have not tried xfsft.  And unfortunately fonts like fixed
don't exist in TT form.  Also, netscape can't use fixed width TT fonts with
xfstt at least.

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