Subject: Re: font prob
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 07:34:57 CST
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Daniel W. Schar wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Chris Nehren wrote:
>
> red hat...
>
> > > hello
> > > im runnin abiword on linux 7.0, runnin the latest ximian gnome, with their
> >
> > "linux 7.0"? What is this to which you refer? The latest "linux" available
> > is 2.4.13. You mean you have your _distro_'s seventh version. Which is
> > important to know -- which distro? Certain distros muck up fonts so badly
> > that I would swear they were made by M$ (redhat, mandrunk serve as very
> > prime examples of this).
> >
> > > any help, sugestions woudl be great...
> > > dan
> > > ps, im runnin this on a thinkpad 310ed with 16b 600x800 screen...
> >
The fonts you see are the only Freely distributable scalable fonts we know
of. There is Project of the Week to snoop around the Open Office project
and elsewhere on the net to find other freely distrubtable scalable fonts.
The other fonts you see on gnome are are bitmapped fonts or directly
anti-aliased using the freetype library. The first type are
printable. They'd come out all jaggy on a high resolution printer. The
later is too slow for a word processor.
OK now you have 3 choices to get better looking fonts.
1. There is a nifty little program availble to enable anti-aliased fonts
for gtk application - explictly for abiword in fact. Load that. I forget
the name - check out the Gnotices website. You'll need a good video card
that supports the Xrender extension in Xfree 4.10 or later.
2. Grab some MS True Type fonts from somewhere and follow the instructions
on how to install them. These are nice fonts but unfortunately MS Won't
let us distribute them. I wonder why?
3. Wait until we prot abiword to Gtk 2.0 with it's automatic support for
Xrender. You'll still the good video card and driver. I don't expect a gtk
2.0 abiword before Mark 2002 at the earliest.
Cheers
Martin
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