Yet Another Fonts Question ...
Hi All, I am building up a nice little lightweight desktop. So far I have installed base, portsnapped fetched extracted, made Xorg meta port and fluxbox. Ive added webfonts and artwiz fonts. Ive hand rolled fonts.conf and followed the handbook on xfonts. Fonts still dont look too great though? In fact sometimes its hard to tell the difference between one font and another. I am using conky and conky reports the Xft isnt enabled so I got to wondering if this is part of my problem? If so, how do I go about enabling it? Thanks in advance for any advice etc. Btw I have discovered 'links -driver x' which is great, also mp3blaster, mc, mutt - is there any other console apps I really should know about :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote X session fonts question
Maarten Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has anyone a clue on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? An application can only use fonts which the X server knows about. The laptop has its own X server, and needs the fonts that you want to use. A font server is one way to do that; installing the fonts on the laptop directly would be another. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
remote X session fonts question
Hi, My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has anyone a clue on in which direction I should look? Do I need to setup a font server? Do the xorg.conf fonts sections need to be absolutly equal? Etc. Thanks, Maarten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts Question...
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:05:02 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is called XCELI.TTF So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it.. This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts and can you use windows fonts? you're using xorg ? you have a ~/.fonts directory ? if not, create it and copy fonts you want to use in there, and you should be able to use them right away ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts Question...
Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is called XCELI.TTF So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it.. This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts and can you use windows fonts? You need to run fc-config and restart your x-windows after adding a font. It should be available after restart. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fonts Question...
When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is called XCELI.TTF So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it.. This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts and can you use windows fonts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts Question...
On 8/23/05, Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When installing X fonts whats the best way to do this say I found a font I really like thats manily for windows ...the file is called XCELI.TTF So I figured I could go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and place the file there..then open ip xfontsel and have at it.. This didnt work...so my question is.. how do you install custem X fonts and can you use windows fonts? I drop them in the TTF directory and run fc-cache. Works for me; I have ttf fonts in my fluxbox menu's etc. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fonts question
I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to it listing Lucida in the fonts pref list, which I have as a PCF font. It seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not anti-aliased. An example would be: font face=Tahoma, Lucida, Helvetica size=+2bThis text isn't anti-aliased!/b/font (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF fonts when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. This would be Question #1). I use gnome (2.4), so I pulled up my font list to discover that Lucida was a PCF font. I also saw that I had LucidaBright and LucidaTypewriter, also PCF fonts. It occurred to me that maybe I could get the TTF Lucida Sans font and put it on here. If so, Question #2 is: is there a way to have X always substitute a font... in this case, Lucida Sans for any call for Lucida? I would assume flat out turning off PCF fonts would be a Bad Idea. The plot thickens though. I launch OpenOffice 1.1 and guess what? I see Lucidasans, Lucidabright, and Lucidatypewriter as VECTOR FONTS! Truly they are working, as I tried applying them to some sample text and made the point size huge. Yet these same fonts don't appear in AbiWord. So question #3 is: What gives? Where's this Lucidasans vector font coming from? How can I make it available to other apps, like Firebird and AbiWord? And how can I make it get used before the PCF Lucida? I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Any insight or help appreciated... thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts question
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:11, Scott I. Remick wrote: I understand a lot of things, but fonts sometimes confuse me. This is one of those times. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and XFree86 4.3.0. Most of the time, my fonts are beautiful and anti-aliased. However, I noticed some web pages some text wouldn't be. I narrowed down one site to it listing Lucida in the fonts pref list, which I have as a PCF font. It seems that PCF fonts are bitmap fonts... so that explains why it's not anti-aliased. An example would be: font face=Tahoma, Lucida, Helvetica size=+2bThis text isn't anti-aliased!/b/font (One quick solution here would be a way in Firebird to never use PCF fonts when rendering pages... if someone knows the answer, please let me know. This would be Question #1). I use gnome (2.4), so I pulled up my font list to discover that Lucida was a PCF font. I also saw that I had LucidaBright and LucidaTypewriter, also PCF fonts. It occurred to me that maybe I could get the TTF Lucida Sans font and put it on here. If so, Question #2 is: is there a way to have X always substitute a font... in this case, Lucida Sans for any call for Lucida? I would assume flat out turning off PCF fonts would be a Bad Idea. The plot thickens though. I launch OpenOffice 1.1 and guess what? I see Lucidasans, Lucidabright, and Lucidatypewriter as VECTOR FONTS! Truly they are working, as I tried applying them to some sample text and made the point size huge. Yet these same fonts don't appear in AbiWord. So question #3 is: What gives? Where's this Lucidasans vector font coming from? How can I make it available to other apps, like Firebird and AbiWord? And how can I make it get used before the PCF Lucida? I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Joe Any insight or help appreciated... thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: fonts question
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't miss that section, but I can't see how it helps me here. Maybe you can let me know what I'm missing. Going through those instructions: I don't have a ~/.fonts/ directory, and I've looked through /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for *[Ll][Uu][Cc]* as well as examined all the font descriptions in the various font.dir files and found no non-PCF Lucida font mentioned. Tweaking which fonts are anti-aliased seems not the answer as what I read says that bitmap fonts like PCF cannot be anti-aliased. So the editing of fonts-conf to control this isn't applicable. (note: that site talks about editing that file, yet when you open it, it says at the very top to NOT edit it). Running fc-cache -f does not make these vector Lucida fonts visible to AbiWord. Changing the point size at which fonts are anti-aliased, or the spacing, isn't applicable to my problems. And finally, I already have bitstream-vera installed. If the answer to my problem (or any of my 3 questions) is indeed on that web page, then I guess I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing it. Sorry :( ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts question
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:18, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:20:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know the page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html ...but it doesn't go this deep. Actually, the Anti-Aliasing section at the bottom does. Hey Marcus... thanks for jumping in. I didn't miss that section, but I can't see how it helps me here. Maybe you can let me know what I'm missing. Going through those instructions: I don't have a ~/.fonts/ directory, and I've looked through /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for *[Ll][Uu][Cc]* as well as examined all the font descriptions in the various font.dir files and found no non-PCF Lucida font mentioned. Tweaking which fonts are anti-aliased seems not the answer as what I read says that bitmap fonts like PCF cannot be anti-aliased. So the editing of fonts-conf to control this isn't applicable. (note: that site talks about editing that file, yet when you open it, it says at the very top to NOT edit it). Running fc-cache -f does not make these vector Lucida fonts visible to AbiWord. Changing the point size at which fonts are anti-aliased, or the spacing, isn't applicable to my problems. And finally, I already have bitstream-vera installed. If the answer to my problem (or any of my 3 questions) is indeed on that web page, then I guess I'm being dense, but I'm not seeing it. Sorry :( Look at the section about modifying local.conf or .fonts.conf to do font family substitution. The example I gave is Helvetica, but you can modify it to work with Lucida as well. The section starts with: Certain fonts, such as Helvetica, may have a problem when anti-aliased. Usually this manifests itself as a font that seems cut in half vertically. At worst, it may cause applications such as Mozilla to crash. To avoid this, consider adding the following to local.conf: Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
