Today, Kenneth E. Lussier gleaned this insight:
> Try setting Navigator to use your fonts and to disregard
> "site-specified" fonts. Also, disable dynamic fonts.
This doesn't work for certain pages... I'm not sure which but if the
author specifies either relative font sizes, or absolute font sizes, one
of the two will be displayed "as intended" -- IOW ignoring your font
settings. Most annoying.
The best solution I've found for this so far is to cop out and use Windows
TTF fonts with RedHat's TTF-capable font server (the default server is
TTF-capable, that is; IOW it is not the standard X font server). Not an
optimal solution (because of the dependency on infernal Microsoft), but it
works well and pages render quite legibly.
Unfortunately, for some reason, despite the fact that I did NOT install
the X standard font server when I upgraded to XF 4.0.1, I can't seem to
display TTF fonts anymore. It worked the first time I did the upgrade (I
think), but I broke something else (out of stupidity) so I removed X and
overlaid the carefully preserved tarball of my original XF 3.3.6 install,
and then re-ran the upgrade, it stopped working, to my confoundedness.
I gave up trying to figure it out for about a half-hour (which is very
unlike me, but I've been really busy lately), so I'm without TTF fonts
still. :(
For those willing to taint their Linux installation, links to setting up
TTF on Linux are here:
http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html
As I recall, the info here is quite good, though some of the info is
outdated or a little inaccurate, in that it was written when RedHat's
default xfs did not have TTF support built in to it (around RH 5.x). It
does now so you don't need to go get font servers or re-compile anything.
You just need to put the fonts somewhere where the font server can find
them, create the necessary font indexes (or whatever they are) with the
utilities described, and edit your xfs config file.
Also IIRC, RH 6.2 doesn't ship with one of the utilities you need (can't
remember which one). You should be able to grab it from the RH6.1 RPM if
you can figure out how to do that without mucking up your system, or copy
it from a friend...
But I might just be hallucinating that last part.
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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