[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried this "tweak" for True Type Fonts?
> 
>   http://theregus.com/content/4/26770.html
> 
> Does it make things better or worse?
> 
> I'm thinking about grabbing the source RPM for "freetype" (if Redhat
> supplies it on their FTP site :)  and rebuilding it with the patch
> mentioned, and making that an "extra" on BSware if it really works ...
> 
> My desktop users still complain about poor fonts in web browsers, even
> after loading the TTF's from their windows partition in XFS.

There are a couple of other tweaks here that may prove beneficial:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html

Specifically helpful:

$ startx -- -dpi 140 -depth 16 # v4.x syntax ## Season to taste

and:

setting default-point-size = 140 (e.g.) in /etc/X11/fs/config along with the
other config tweaks (swapping the 100/75dpi fonts, etc.)

Note the Red Hat specifics in the URL.

There are specific tweaks for Netscape/Mozilla also.

Rinaldi
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