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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!usenet From: j.laidman@cowan.edu.au (Jeremy Laidman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: XFree386 and fonts [ugly] Date: 25 Nov 92 15:35:56 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <jeremy.722705756@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au> References: <1992Nov23.160039.369@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Reply-To: j.laidman@cowan.edu.au (Jeremy Laidman) NNTP-Posting-Host: scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >Is anyone observing this too: The fonts in the buttons and drop down menu >choices of xman and also the font you get when you type CONTROL+MIDDLEBUTTON >or CONTROL+LEFTBUTTON in an xterm are somewhat ugly. I.e. the horizontal >line of a lower case 'e' is so thin that it does not reach a 1 pixel width. >This applies also to other characters. >How come? >-- >--Chris >Christoph P. U. Kukulies >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. I'm assuming you're running in 1024x768 or above. I wondered about this too, until I saw someone with Linux do it right. The Linux distribution had more fonts than the XFree86 I got (misc and 75dpi). What you need is the 100dpi fonts. I just copied them from a Silicon Graphics machine we've got here, but any machine with X should do. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Laidman, Computer Support Officer Department of Computer Science Phone: (61 9) 370 6648 Edith Cowan University Fax: (61 9) 370 2910 Perth, Western Australia j.laidman@cowan.edu.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------