[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[Bruce Smith]

Speaking of fonts, why do some web sites force really small fonts?
Let me pick on one "Linux friendly" site that I have to bump Galeon up
to 140/150% size to make it readable.  NEWSFORGE.COM  Anyone else have a
problem there?  I don't have this problem with slashdot.  Jamie?  :-)

> > 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 ...

I rebuilt the RPM with the patch mentioned, and so far I haven't been
able to tell the difference.  I even took some screen shots first of web
pages that have hard-to-read fonts to compare.  (including newsforge :)

> > 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

Thanks!  There is some good stuff there.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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