high resolution fonts?

[Matthew Garman]

Is there a package that will give me some high resolution fonts, or at
least allow my existing fonts to scale better?

For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the
gimp.  If I use my text tool to create *large* text, then the text comes
out looking very pixelized (i.e. squared off or boxy, no smooth edges).

Also, I noticed that in mozilla, any text surrounded by the h1 tag
suffers from the same problem: the characters aren't smooth.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

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 Smile and grin at the change all around, Pick up my guitar and play
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Re: high resolution fonts?

[Joost Kooij]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:08:00PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
 Is there a package that will give me some high resolution fonts, or at
 least allow my existing fonts to scale better?
 
 For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the
 gimp.  If I use my text tool to create *large* text, then the text comes
 out looking very pixelized (i.e. squared off or boxy, no smooth edges).
 
 Also, I noticed that in mozilla, any text surrounded by the h1 tag
 suffers from the same problem: the characters aren't smooth.
 
 Any ideas?

For X11 in general, make sure that you have the xfonts-scalable installed
or that you are running a truetype fontserver and have some truetype font 
sets installed.

For gimp: look at the freefont and sharefont packages.  The gimp package
actually contains suggests: for these packages.  Did you use dselect to
install the gimp package?  Raw apt-get ignores all recommends: and
suggests:, but these are there for a reason.  Use dselect.

For the mozilla problem, configure it to use scalable fonts, and install
scalable xfonts or install a truetype fontserver.

Cheers,


Joost