Re: SOLVED (and new question) - Re: Fonts aren't quite right (different problem)

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:31:24PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
| dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
| 
| > How do I do that?  That is, how do I know if a font is scalable or
| > not?  Should I just remove the 100dpi and 75dpi font directories, or
| > are some of them scalable?
| 
| Any PFB (Postscript) or TTF font is scalable.  Stuff in the speedo
| directory is too.  Anything .pcf is bitmap.
| 
| I wouldn't recommend removing those directories... some programs may
| hardcode fonts and require stuff there (usually "fixed").  Instead,
| what I do is set every application/toolkit/whatever I use to use
| scalable fonts.  

Thanks.

| It's a long list of places to change, but won't break anything.  

I'll probably find them eventualy :-).  If I remove the directories
I'll probably find them faster when I see things messed up.

| Many programs accept X resources for this:
| 
| Netscape*fontList: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
| Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
| Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
| Emacs.font: -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal-*-*-95-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1

Thanks, but I don't use netscape or emacs (galeon and vim).

| others have other means of configuration, like .gtkrc or the KDE
| control panel.  That way, you can minimize use of bitmap fonts and
| live happily.

I know how to set gvim.  I'll check on .gtkrc sometime.

-D