> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:47:41PM -0700, Heather wrote: > > > > Netscape's printouts still suck tho. Sigh. Anyone try that with NS 6? > > I understand from the mini-HOWTO that NS uses only Type 1 fonts when > it creates the .ps file to print, even though it displays TTF and even > though gs will use TTF (if configured). Hmm! This implies that if I have a Type1 available further up the list alias'd to the same name, it will use that. So I could use some other "cute sanserif" font instead of Comic Sans for instance...
I'll try it this weekend, and let y'all know the results. >> What sort of misbehaviors does it have that made the difference for you? >> I hacked xfsft patches into my own X server at some point, and stopped paying >> attention to other renderers until recently; now I'm curious. I liked >> xfsft because I already know how to hack font.dir and font.alias files... > > Well, I just didn't find the font display on this laptop to be as pleasing > in NS with the xfs-xtt server as I do now with the xfs and xfstt combination. > Displayed fonts were much smaller and scaling was much poorer, IMO, even > though I configured xfs-xtt to use 100 dpi and set up the font paths as > I do now with the seperate servers. I wish I had made a screenshot so > I could demonstrate the difference I found here. > > > Consider it requested :) > > Okay, here it is: > > Fragment of /etc/X11/XF86Config [ ellided ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The mini-HOWTO recommends keeping the misc directory available so the > X server has the fallback to the Fixed font if the font servers should > be unreachable. FTE uses this font for its X display and I found > garbled text if the line was placed after the references to the two > servers. So, placing it ahead satisfied FTE and hasn't seemed to harm > other apps. Ah. I was afraid it was something really weird. I already do the above because X will actually refuse to load if it "can't find default font 'fixed'." I hate fixed, I enjoy lucidatypewriter, so I chased down the references to it in my wm ages ago - but this is still a complaint. So... This first, and I know it's "safe" to mess with everything else. > The first server in the list is the xfstt server so that if a web page > specifiess an arial font it will be displayed by NS using an arial TTF > rather than a helvetica Type 1 font. > > - Nate >> I alias'd "Helv" to real Helvetica 'cuz I like it better. Must be just me. Anyways I've read about something calling itself Type 42 fonts, which are ttf's wrappered in a type1 sandwich, and some things can deal with both batches of info. Hunh. Anyways this hardly seems laptop-ish any more. Thanks for the info, tho. -* Heather Stern * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-
