Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 03:20:53 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fonts question Message-ID: <1066116053.32360.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.10.14.07.11.18.12331@sremick.net> References: <pan.2003.10.14.07.11.18.12331@sremick.net>
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--=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:11, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one > of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. >=20 > Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I > noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to > it listing "Lucida" in the fonts pref list, which I have as a PCF font. I= t > seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not > anti-aliased. >=20 > An example would be: >=20 > <font face=3D"Tahoma, Lucida, Helvetica" size=3D"+2"><b>This text isn't > anti-aliased!</b></font> >=20 > (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF font= s > when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. > This would be Question #1). >=20 > I use gnome (2.4), so I pulled up my font list to discover that "Lucida" > was a PCF font. I also saw that I had LucidaBright and LucidaTypewriter, > also PCF fonts. It occurred to me that maybe I could get the TTF "Lucida > Sans" font and put it on here. If so, Question #2 is: is there a way to > have X always substitute a font... in this case, Lucida Sans for any call > for "Lucida"? I would assume flat out turning off PCF fonts would be a Ba= d > Idea. >=20 > The plot thickens though. I launch OpenOffice 1.1 and guess what? I see > "Lucidasans", "Lucidabright", and "Lucidatypewriter" as VECTOR FONTS! > Truly they are working, as I tried applying them to some sample text and > made the point size huge. Yet these same fonts don't appear in AbiWord. S= o > question #3 is: What gives? Where's this Lucidasans vector font coming > from? How can I make it available to other apps, like Firebird and > AbiWord? And how can I make it get used before the PCF Lucida? >=20 > I know the page: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html >=20 > ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Joe >=20 > Any insight or help appreciated... thanks! >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/i6PVb2iPiv4Uz4cRAiztAJwMEhQFzeF1D1twPRrgK0sNqIAciwCgrAgs 6v/UGgAe2gPmHbMsvXEZqH4= =nuQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kOurUqlJJO8e5CIof6g6--
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