Re: How do I get new fonts.
Scott Stone (sstone@ume.pht.co.jp)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:55:14 +0900 (JST)
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Corbett J. Klempay wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
> >
> > >I need more fonts. I am running Debian 1.3, xfree86, and AfterStep 1.4. I
> > >want more fonts in the Gimp and in Netscape.
>
> Yeah, go get xfstt. I installed it...it's damn easy to use. I have my
> system mount one of my Windows partitions (my Win98 one, to be exact) on
> bootup and mount it at /fat, so I just set up xfstt so that its font dir
> is /fat/windows/fonts and all is kosher. I haven't tried it with the GIMP
> yet, but I've heard that the FAQ covers this in great detail. The area
> where it seems to benefit me the most is just using Netscape...there seem
> to be so many pages out there where the idiot who wrote the HTML code
> designed it so that it looks like crap in a bag without the TrueType fonts
> that he specified; this helps a lot. The fonts aren't anti-aliased (I've
> read that X's font scheme would have to be entirely redesigned for this to
> be possible), but it's a definitely improvement, and takes maybe a whole
> minute to get installed and working 100%. Give it a try...
The GIMP faq does point you at some nice drop-in scalable replacement
fonts for the standard X font set. They look really nice, IMHO, and they
directly replace your current 100dpi fonts in X.
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@pht.com, sstone@turbolinux.com>
<sstone@pht.co.jp>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
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