On Tue, 16 May 2000, Matt wrote: > I run Netscape 4.5 on my Mandrake box and the fonts have always sucked. That's because the fonts you have suck. > Too small, ugly, too small. Why cant they be pretty like Internet > Explorer's. Even Netscape users probably know it .. IE's rendering engine is > superior. *gasp* I think not. IE does no font rendering whatsoever. Netscape and IE are identical (IE tags removed) in the way of fonts when run on the same platform. > So what's the solution ? Download some kind of special/newer fonts ? Change > browsers ? I would recommend installing the TrueType fonts from Windows and any other TrueType fonts you can find. Read up on the xfs and xfstt font server packages. (I recommend xfstt). Installing FreeType fonts wouldn't be a bad idea either. > What's the story with type in Linux anyway ? Linux lacks anti-aliasing, which it needs. Andrew. -- SecretSydneyNet - A project to bring the community together through new technologies. http://www.secret.com.au/sydney/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
