Can anyone recommend their favourite JDK for Linux (Mandrake)? I'm thinking of switching over at home and I'd value the opinions of people on this list. (Free JDKs get preference :o)
Cheers, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Rahel Luethy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 January 2002 17:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Eap-list] Re: OT: fonts > > > no, i didn't have to do anything special (just a tick in the > KDE Control > Center...) > Concerning verdana: in IDEA the font looks great as long as > it is layed > out horizontally. in the vertial tabs (project, structure, > etc.) it just > isn't displayed at all :-( > i can't tell if it is an IDEA or a jdk bug --> i'm tending > towards jdk > (Sun's 1.3.1_02) > > cu: rahel > > Colin D Bennett wrote: > > >>I'm using SuSE 7.3 with XFree 4.1.0 what allows me to use > truetype fonts > >>(stolen from windows...) and antialiasing -- looks great! > >> > > > > Antialiasing??? I didn't think that the XFree86 > antialiasing worked in Swing > > apps. Did you have to do anything special? I understand that Swing > > implements all font rendering in Java to achieve visual > consistency, so the > > XFree renderer wouldn't be used. > > > > I run Red Hat 7.2, and have installed TrueType fonts, which > makes it look > > *much* better (Verdana is the best thing to ever come out > of Microsoft). It > > is as easy as this: > > > > INSTALLING TRUETYPE FONTS ON LINUX > > > > 1. Put your TTF font files in > /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType (the Red > > Hat standard location) or wherever you keep them > > 2. cd to the directory where you just put the fonts > > 3. ttmkfdir >fonts.scale > > 4. mkfontdir > > 5. Restart XFS (the X font server): /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart > > 6. Restart X. > > > > For more info, see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86-2.html > > Cheers, > Colin > -- rahel luethy software engineering liebhart systems marktplatz 30A CH-4001 basel +41 61 260 90 20 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.liebhart.com _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list *************************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. *************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
