>Sarah reichelt wrote: >Hi All, > >While we are talking about fonts, would some Linux person please fill >me in on whether they have these fonts and if not, what is the closest >thing in the Linux world. I don't know if this varies with distribution >and GUI so I may be asking an impossible question. > >Proportional: >Sans serif: Verdana >Serif: Times or Times New Roman > >Fixed width: >Sans serif: Monaco >Serif: Courier or Courier New > >I use these four fonts almost exclusively although I try to avoid >Monaco if possible because it isn't a Windows font. I don't like >FixedSys, so if any Windows person has an idea of a fixed width sans >serif font that works well in small sizes, I'd love to know. (XP only) > >Thanks, >Sarah >
Sarah, I would expect available fonts to vary between distros and installations. Linux was "born to be tweaked" after all. Verdana is not available, being an MS font you wouldn't expect it on Linux. While I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a "Linux person", I do run Mandrake Linux 10 here and FWIW here are a few of the common or potentially useful fonts that came installed with it. Bitstream Vera Sans Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bitstream Vera Serif Courier Helvetica Lucida LucidaTypewriter Times all these have regular, italic, bold, bold italic The KDE desktop, by default seems to use 2 fonts imaginatively named "Sans" and "Monospace" as what we might call system fonts. They look OK actually. The version of Helvetica is even uglier than usual. Helvetica is a Unix system font however (also courier and times I believe), and barring user changes, Helvetica is the default font that Revolution uses - ie it is the effective textfont of a newly created stack under Linux. (In Rev 2.5 things may well be different but I haven't checked it). (BTW, the application I've been working on runs on mac classic, windows and Linux. I've never set any fonts or font sizes at all except in a couple of text editing fields, and probably as a result I haven't had any issues with cross-platform fonts, Revolution's defaults have worked fine for me. I think the moral of that is that if your application can live without the use of typograhics, one answer to this problem is just to leave well alone.) I'd be interested to hear what other Linux installations have. Martin Baxter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
