On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
>
> What is NetScape's !@#%%!! problem that
> it so frequently chooses to render WWW
> pages using the most uselessly teensy
> one-pixel-per-character fonts it can find?
> I've diddled the font settings under
> Preferences and I've diddled the character
> set stuff under View but it seems clear
> that the real problem lies elsewhere...
A big part of this is the default XFree86 font configuration; I think it's
missing a bunch of fonts. I found a fix for this in "Grokking the GIMP",
which involved downloading "freefonts.tar.gz" and fixing XF86Config to use
these. It was also important to remove a couple of the existing font
references, and to arrange them in the right order.
I looked up the author's (Carey Bunks) web site, and found the info:
http://gimp-savvy.com
The fonts can be found at
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/
There are two packages: freefonts and sharefonts. freefonts is a set of
free fonts, and sharefonts is a set of shareware fonts.
Assuming you untarred them into /usr/local/fonts/freefonts, you can then
load them into the current X session with the commands
xset fp+ /usr/local/fonts/freefonts ; xset fp rehash
After that, quit out of netscape and restart it, then play with the
font preferences again.
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