Ken,
How would I find out whether they are installed or not?
Richard
At 06:36 PM 10/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I stand to be corrected but I would also think you need to have the 100
>dpi fonts installed. I don't use them on my machine so they're not
>installed. It's been a while so I don't remember if installing them was
>optional or not.
>
>This probably isn't a complete answer to your problem but is maybe one
>place to look.
>
>Ken Wilson
>First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
>irrelevant
>(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Salts
>Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:14 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
>
>
>Hello, John,
>
>Maybe you could help me with this or maybe I've already done it, I don't
>know. Somebody in this list told me about a website:
>http://www.mandrake.org to go to that had info as how to enlarge the
>Linux
>tinytype fonts.
>
>Well, I went there, got the directions, printed out the directions,
>located
>this config file, opened it using 'gedit' as a text editor, swapped the
>75's
>for the 100's in both entries, one in the /X11/fs and the line in the
>'default-resolutions= 75,75,100,100 to the reverse of that and saved
>the
>changes, got out of gedit, and read the next set of directions which
>said:
>
>Restart the X Font Server by issuing this command as root:
>
>kill -SIGUSR1 $ (pidof xfs)
>
>It didn't say where I should be in Linux when I was supposed to issue
>this
>command. I thought I should be in the console when I did that, so I got
>up
>the console and, as root, typed out the above command and got this
>reply:
>
>'unexpected 'p'
>
>I guess something was supposed to have restarted up but nothing like
>that
>happened.
>
>I just wonder if I did everything necessary by simply retyping the
>changes
>in that config file and saving it or did I need to do something else?
>
>I hope I've described this fully to you. Is changing the file enough or
>do
>I have to issue that 'kill' command and if so, where do I issue it? In
>the
>console?
>
>Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:15 PM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
>
>
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>> > John,
>> >
>> > I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print.
>What
>> > do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts?
>How
>> > does this give 100 dpi fonts?
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
>> Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the
>> XF86Config file. This will call the 100dpi fonts
>> instead....larger fonts. You should be able to go in and
>> manually select larger fonts anyway...
>> John
>>
>>
>
>
>
