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Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
- From: John McNulty <john@xxxxxxxx>(by way of John McNulty <john@xxxxxxxx>)
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:50:00 +0000
- Message-id: <20011030155001.1163CC76F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Is it a fresh 7.3 install, or an upgrade?
I had this problem on 7.2 and then discovered that the /etc/XF86Config I was
using, that I had carefully preserved across multiple upgrades, no longer
contained a font list that matched what I had on the system. I saved it,
and then used sax (sax2 if you're using XFree86 4.x) to generate a new
XF86Config. I wasn't totally happy with the new one and ended up creating a
hybrid of the two, but once I had all the fonts declared properly all my
unreadable fonts suddenly became readable again :-)
John
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 2:45 pm, you wrote:
> I agree. Just installed 7.3 and the fonts are unreadable in many apps such
> as the xterm. I've tried antialiasing on and off, it doesn't make a
> difference. Whats up with this and how do you fix it?
>
> Chris Geske
> LIMS Manager
> Northern Lake Service, Inc.
> email: lims@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> phone: 715-478-2777
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dids [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:54 AM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
>
>
> Nope Ive been using Tahoma for a long time now. Its not just tahoma that is
> funny, its most of them.
> If you try turning of Anti-Aliasing on fonts below a certain point site (
> Xftconfg ) you get even worse results.
> Ive done the fetchmsttfonts thing just to be certain.
>
> There is something weird with the font setup. believe me.
>
> dids
>
> > On Monday 29 October 2001 17:53, you wrote:
> > > Im getting really weird looking fonts with 7.3 and anti-aliased turned
> > > on, tahoma looks v unpleasant
> > >
> > > dids
> >
> > Tahoma is a Microsoft font, so I suspect it will always look "ragged"
> > whether aliased or not 'cos it simply isn't available by default. Fwiw, I
> > do actually want to see web pages in all their glory(?) - via mozilla, so
>
> I
>
> > followed the procedure described in the SuSE 7.2 reference manual under
>
> the
>
> > heading: Inserting Additional (True Type) Fonts. If things haven't
> > changed that much in 7.3 - it should do the trick for you... ;-)
> >
> > Chris
I had this problem on 7.2 and then discovered that the /etc/XF86Config I was
using, that I had carefully preserved across multiple upgrades, no longer
contained a font list that matched what I had on the system. I saved it,
and then used sax (sax2 if you're using XFree86 4.x) to generate a new
XF86Config. I wasn't totally happy with the new one and ended up creating a
hybrid of the two, but once I had all the fonts declared properly all my
unreadable fonts suddenly became readable again :-)
John
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 2:45 pm, you wrote:
> I agree. Just installed 7.3 and the fonts are unreadable in many apps such
> as the xterm. I've tried antialiasing on and off, it doesn't make a
> difference. Whats up with this and how do you fix it?
>
> Chris Geske
> LIMS Manager
> Northern Lake Service, Inc.
> email: lims@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> phone: 715-478-2777
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dids [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:54 AM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 anti-aliased fonts weirdness
>
>
> Nope Ive been using Tahoma for a long time now. Its not just tahoma that is
> funny, its most of them.
> If you try turning of Anti-Aliasing on fonts below a certain point site (
> Xftconfg ) you get even worse results.
> Ive done the fetchmsttfonts thing just to be certain.
>
> There is something weird with the font setup. believe me.
>
> dids
>
> > On Monday 29 October 2001 17:53, you wrote:
> > > Im getting really weird looking fonts with 7.3 and anti-aliased turned
> > > on, tahoma looks v unpleasant
> > >
> > > dids
> >
> > Tahoma is a Microsoft font, so I suspect it will always look "ragged"
> > whether aliased or not 'cos it simply isn't available by default. Fwiw, I
> > do actually want to see web pages in all their glory(?) - via mozilla, so
>
> I
>
> > followed the procedure described in the SuSE 7.2 reference manual under
>
> the
>
> > heading: Inserting Additional (True Type) Fonts. If things haven't
> > changed that much in 7.3 - it should do the trick for you... ;-)
> >
> > Chris
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