Thursday, February 10, 2000

Yet Even Further Linux Fonts -- 10:11 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A couple people have emailed me about how I got fonts to look decent under Linux. I'm glad I waited because I found an even better way! Ready? Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version (full report to follow when I get the chance to type it all up).

Step #1: Install xfs. Recent Red Hat distributions have this as the default font server so you're ready to go there already. Check the section on xfs in the Font Deuglification Mini-HOWTO for more information.

Step #2: Go to the Fuzzy small TT-fonts on the web section of the "Some Linux for beginners" webpage. Copy that big section of information on the arial font into a file called fonts.alias in your true type directory. Exit X and restart xfs (as root type /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart or use linuxconf to do it). Note: this assumes that you have an Arial true type font from a Windows installation.

Step #3: Fire up Netscape and change the variable space font (under Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts) to Arial (Monotype), 14 pt, and click the "allow scaling" box. Also check the "Use document-specific fonts, including Dynamic Fonts" box.

It's not absolutely perfect, but it's about a million times better than the default (that's very little hyperbole). The problem is that you have to create the fonts.alias file to convince Netscape that the Arial font can indeed be used in more than 12pt. Rumor has it that Mozilla M14 will fix this, but it'll be a bit before that comes out (M13 crashes spectacularly when you try to change fonts).

News for 02/10/2000

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