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From: Jim <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] AA Fonts
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:40:43
Message-Id: 4410E5C1.80809@keeliegirl.dyndns.org
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4 I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg. Some
5 fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk.
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7 Here is a page showing what is going on:
8 http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html
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10 Courier looks like garbage until about 16px.
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12 Courier New looks better, though it is faint and not well aliased/hinted.
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14 Bitstream Vera Mono looks nice, along with all the other Bitstream fonts.
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16 My problem is that there are a lot of web sites (coding) that have
17 "code" sections that use Courier as the font, for example the Gentoo
18 Forum here:
19 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1398168
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21 I also get a lot of MS Word and MS Excel documents from work that all
22 use MS Fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.
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24 Is there anything I can do to fix up these fonts? I have the following
25 TTF fonts installed:
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27 /usr/share/fonts/TTF/
28 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
29 /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/
30 /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/
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32 Thanks,
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34 Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] AA Fonts Thomas Kear <thomas.kear@×××××.com>